Haiti News Round-Up No. 8: UN Panel Releases Investigative Report on Sanctions
On October 20, the UN Security Council is scheduled to discuss the final report of the UN Expert Panel, convened last year to advise the council on its sanctions regime in Haiti. The 156-page...
View ArticleHaiti News Round-Up No. 9: Transition Council at Odds with De Facto PM
A simmering conflict between the High Council for the Transition (HCT) and de facto prime minister Ariel Henry has burst into the open. Led by former presidential candidate Mirlande Manigat, the...
View ArticleHaiti News Round-Up No. 10: US Deports Former Coup Leader
On November 30, former coup leader Guy Philippe was deported to Haiti. Philippe was released from prison in the US in September after serving six-plus years on charges related to drug trafficking and...
View ArticleHaiti News Round-Up No. 11: Congress Pushes Back on US-Haiti Policy
In a December 8 letter, Congress members Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), James McGovern (D-MA) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), wrote to Secretary...
View ArticleHaiti News Round-Up No. 12: US Backs De Facto Prime Minister Amid Increasing...
Around 1 a.m. on February 8, de facto prime minister Ariel Henry addressed the nation, calling for calm and making clear that he would not resign. Henry’s remarks came after several weeks of...
View ArticleHaiti News Round-Up No. 13: More Countries Pledge Support for Kenyan-Led...
Alongside the G20 last week, the United States and Brazil cohosted a meeting aimed at building support for the Kenyan-led Multilateral Security Support (MSS) mission. Following the gathering, US...
View ArticleCARICOM and Foreign Diplomats Set Haiti Election Timetable, Undermining Their...
On Sunday, speaking after the start of a summit of CARICOM leaders, the foreign minister of the Bahamas called de facto Haitian prime minister Ariel Henry a barrier to progress. The next day, the prime...
View ArticleHaitian Prime Minister Henry Agrees to Resign as CARICOM Announces Formation...
In a prerecorded message released on social networks just after midnight, Ariel Henry, who has held de facto power in Haiti since shortly after the 2021 assassination of Jovenel Moïse, agreed to...
View ArticleHaiti News Round-Up No. 14: Armed Groups Join Forces to Demand Ouster of PM
On February 29, the disparate armed groups of the capital and surrounding areas joined forces and began a series of coordinated attacks against state institutions. At an impromptu press conference that...
View ArticleHaiti News Round-Up No. 15: Presidential Council Awaits Installation After...
Haiti’s transitional presidential council is expected to be formally established as early as this week, following weeks of internal discussions and delays. On March 27, the council, which is set to...
View ArticleHaiti News Round-Up 16: Transitional Presidential Council Is Sworn in, a...
After weeks of waiting, the transitional presidential council (TPC) was sworn in on April 25 at the National Palace. De facto prime minister Ariel Henry’s official resignation letter, signed from Los...
View ArticleHaiti News Round-Up #17: Transitional Presidential Council Selects Prime...
More than a month after its installation, Haiti’s transitional presidential council (TPC) has selected a prime minister. In a consensus choice, council members picked Gary Conille, regional director of...
View ArticleFirst Kenyan Forces Arrive in Haiti as Part of Latest Foreign Intervention
On Tuesday, June 25, the first contingent of Kenyan security forces, the initial deployment of the much-discussed and long-delayed Multinational Security Support mission (MSS), touched down on the...
View ArticleGive Peace a Chance in Haiti
At 9:16 a.m. on June 25, a Kenya Airways plane touched down in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. On board were some 200 Kenyan police, the vanguard of the Multinational Security Support (MSS) mission approved by...
View ArticleForeign Policy Talks to Jake Johnston about US Sanctioning of Haiti’s Former...
Foreign Policy’s (FP’s) Catherine Osborn talked to Jake Johnston about the news this week that the US is slapping sanctions on Haiti’s former president Michel Martelly for alleged drug trafficking....
View ArticleWashington Post Talks to Jake Johnston about Secretary Blinken’s Support for...
The Washington Post talked to Jake Johnston about Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to Haiti last week, as Blinken attempted to bolster international support for the Kenya-led Multinational...
View ArticleHaitian Government Hires US Security Contractor, but Questions Remain
In late September, Haitian prime minister Gary Conille quietly reached an agreement with Studebaker Defense Group, a multinational security contractor whose employees include many former Pentagon and...
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