US EditionUN criticizes Haiti for lack of progress on a political transition
The U.N. mission mandate in Haiti was extended amid criticism of authorities for failing political progress and calls to address gang violence controlling 90% of Port-au-Prince.
- Thursday, the U.N. Security Council criticized Haitian authorities for stalled political transition and unanimously extended BINUH's mandate to Jan. 31, 2027 with revisions.
- Armed gangs now control 90% of Port-au-Prince and have expanded into the countryside, while an unelected Transitional Council has been one of the country's top authorities since April 2024.
- The council authorized a gang suppression force on Sept. 30 to replace a smaller Kenyan police-led mission, planned at 5,500 members with no deployment timeline; BINUH will cooperate and assist Haitian authorities.
- Next month the council is supposed to dissolve by Feb. 7, but uncertainty remains amid Transitional Council President Laurent Saint-Cyr's Jan. 26, 2026 visit and leadership gaps after three prime ministers and no president since the assassination.
- Created with help from Caribbean leaders after attacks shut Haiti's main international airport, the Transitional Council was charged with selecting Haiti's prime minister.
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The UN Security Council has criticised the Haitian authorities for lack of progress in the country's political stabilisation.
U.N. criticizes Haiti for lack of progress on a political transition
The U.N. Security Council criticized Haitian authorities Thursday for the lack of progress in achieving a political transition and called for urgent security sector reforms to tackle increasing violence by gangs and criminal groups.
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UN criticizes Haiti for lack of progress on a political transition
The U.N. Security Council has criticized Haitian authorities for the lack of progress in achieving a political transition and called for urgent security sector reforms to tackle increasing violence by gangs and criminal groups.
Infobae.- The Security Council of the United Nations (UN) unanimously approved the extension of the mandate of the UN Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH) for a year, in a context marked by the worsening violence of armed gangs and the weakening of institutions in that country. The new mandate, drawn up jointly by Panama and the United States, seeks to strengthen the role of the mission in a political and security environment described as “complex…
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