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The international community has called on Tuesday for a truce in Haiti to allow the distribution of fuel and necessary goods, in view of the humanitarian crisis the country is […]...
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2022-10-05T01:23:53Z
The international community has called on Tuesday for a truce in Haiti to allow the distribution of fuel and necessary goods, in view of the humanitarian crisis the country is suffering after the blockade by armed groups of the main oil terminal.
The Canadian ambassador to Haiti, Sébastien Carrière, informed that the representatives in the Central American country of eleven countries and several international organizations have jointly called for a truce in the country.
"The ambassadors and representatives in Haiti of Brazil, Canada, Chile, France, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, the United States, the European Union, the United Nations and the Organization of American States are very concerned about the blockade of the Varreux terminal, as well as its humanitarian impact, particularly in the context of the resurgence of cholera," announced Carrière.
"We call for an immediate humanitarian truce to allow the outflow of fuel for urgent needs," the diplomat added in a message on the social network Twitter.
The OAS and the French ambassador in the country, Fabrice Mauriès, have expressed the same opinion through the same social network.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) condemned this summer the worsening situation of structural insecurity in Haiti, in particular the conflicts and acts of armed violence affecting the popular neighborhoods of the capital, Port-au-Prince.
Thus, it emphasized that "the actions of armed gangs have paralyzed the popular neighborhood, which has more than 300,000 inhabitants, and have prevented access to public services and essential and emergency activities in the area, in addition to affecting the operation of the port of Varreux, which is the access point for goods and humanitarian aid in the country."
In recent days, Haiti is suffering a new outbreak of cholera, after confirming last weekend two cases in the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince. Authorities began tracking potential patients after reporting several suspected cases, including at least seven deaths.
Both the Ministry of Health and the UN have urged the population to contact a doctor if they detect symptoms compatible with a disease that manifests itself especially through watery diarrhea and that derives mainly from unsanitary contexts, from the consumption of contaminated water or food.
The UN office in Haiti is "actively" monitoring the evolution of the situation and has urged all citizens to remain "vigilant" and adopt protocols to prevent the spread of the disease, for example by washing hands, boiling water, protecting food from contact with animals or using latrines.