{"id":16628,"date":"2024-03-08T00:46:59","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T00:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/08\/haiti-extends-state-of-emergency-as-intruders-break-into-key-port-terminal\/"},"modified":"2024-03-08T00:46:59","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T00:46:59","slug":"haiti-extends-state-of-emergency-as-intruders-break-into-key-port-terminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/08\/haiti-extends-state-of-emergency-as-intruders-break-into-key-port-terminal\/","title":{"rendered":"Haiti extends state of emergency as intruders break into key port\u00a0terminal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Intruders broke into a major\u00a0port\u00a0terminal in Haiti\u00a0Thursday as violence in the country escalated after the government extended its state of emergency. <\/p>\n

The Haitian government decreed the state of emergency would be extended to April 3\u00a0in the country\u2019s West Region and the capital Port-au-Prince. A curfew has been extended\u00a0to\u00a0March\u00a010. <\/p>\n

The source said the unrest at the port continues. <\/p>\n

Port-au-Prince has been gripped by a wave of highly coordinated gang attacks on law enforcement and state institutions in what one gang leader, Jimmy Cherizier, has described as an attempt to overthrow Prime Minister Ariel Henry\u2019s government. <\/p>\n

Armed groups have burned down police stations and released thousands of inmates from two prisons, and Cherizier has warned of \u201ca civil war that will end in genocide\u201d if the prime minister does not step down, Reuters reported Tuesday. <\/p>\n

The chaos has forced tens of thousands to flee their homes in the past few days, adding to the more than 300,000 already displaced by gang violence. <\/p>\n

It is also affecting the distribution of essential supplies by aid organizations. The World Food Programme\u00a0suspended its maritime transport services in Port-au-Prince from distributing aid across Haiti due to the instability. <\/p>\n

Two dozen trucks of aid, filled with\u00a0food, medical supplies, and equipment,\u00a0are stuck at the port in Port-au-Prince, the United\u00a0Nations\u00a0Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in a Thursday statement. <\/p>\n

Maritime routes are the only way to transport aid, especially food and medical supplies for humanitarian and development organizations, from Port-au-Prince to the rest of the country, said Stephane Dujarric, spokesperson for UN Secretary-General and OCHA. <\/p>\n

Healthcare system \u2018near collapse\u2019<\/h2>\n

Haiti\u2019s healthcare system is \u201cnear collapse,\u201d and many health centers have been forced to reduce their operations due to violence and lack of personnel and medicine, Dujarric said. <\/p>\n

Only one public hospital remains operational in Port-au-Prince\u2019s metropolitan area, according to an official at the country\u2019s Civil Protection, and emergency services are severely hampered. <\/p>\n

H\u00f4pital Universitaire la Paix has received nearly 70 patients with gunshot wounds since the weekend and several medical centers in the country have been burned down in the past day, the official said. <\/p>\n

Doctors\u00a0in\u00a0Haiti are desperate for help amid a lack of oxygen and a shortage of water. <\/p>\n

Laroche runs a network of more than 20 medical centers throughout\u00a0Haiti, two of which have been destroyed by gangs, he said.\u00a0\u201cThey (gangs) turned them\u00a0into their general quarters. Seven of our medical centers had to close their doors as well to prevent our employees from being kidnapped.\u201d <\/p>\n

Calls for a political transition<\/h2>\n

The US has been urging Prime Minister Henry to clear the way for a political transition in Haiti, which Haitian officials say could be structured with the initial appointment of a three-member transitional council that would select an interim president to lead the country. <\/p>\n

The unelected leader came to power in 2021 with the backing of the United States, Canada and other key allies, following the assassination of former President Jovenel Moise. He promised to hold elections in 2023, but they never transpired, with Henry\u2019s administration citing the country\u2019s insecurity as a major obstacle. <\/p>\n

Henry has had difficulty returning to the country this week. His plane was diverted to the US territory of Puerto Rico after the Dominican\u00a0Republic, which shares the Caribbean island of Hispaniola with Haiti, refused to let it land. <\/p>\n

When the violence broke out last Friday, Henry was in Kenya to sign an agreement for a Kenyan-led multinational mission to restore security in the Caribbean nation. <\/p>\n

Nearby nations have been securing their borders following the outbreak of violence. A maritime blockade was established in the southeastern Bahamas amid fears of mass migration from Haiti,\u00a0Commodore Raymond King of the Royal Bahamas Defence Force (RBDF), said at a press conference on Thursday. <\/p>\n

King said officials are particularly concerned about the jailbreaks, fearing the prison escapees will try to flee Haiti by boat. <\/p>\n

While security has deteriorated in recent months, Haiti has for years suffered chronic violence, political crisis and drought, leaving some 5.5 million Haitians \u2013 about half the population \u2013 in need of humanitarian assistance. <\/p>\n

More than 40% of deaths in the impoverished neighborhood of Cit\u00e9 Soleil in the\u00a0Haitian capital have been caused by violence, according to a survey conducted by M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res (MSF) that studied the period between July 25 and August 24, 2023. MSF said the mortality rate is comparable to those seen during exceptionally violent periods in Syria and Myanmar. <\/p>\n

This is a developing story and will be updated. <\/p>\n\n

This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Intruders broke into a major\u00a0port\u00a0terminal in Haiti\u00a0Thursday as violence in the country escalated after the government extended its state of emergency. The Haitian government decreed the state of emergency would be extended to April 3\u00a0in the country\u2019s West Region and the capital Port-au-Prince. A curfew has been extended\u00a0to\u00a0March\u00a010. The source said the unrest at the <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16629,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16628","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}