NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–7 January 2011 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today named four top medical experts to an independent panel to investigate the cause of a cholera epidemic in Haiti amid media reports that Nepalese peacekeepers from the United Nations mission there may have been the source. The panel will be chaired[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–5 January 2011 – The United Nations and its partners this week launched a 20-year, $200 million environmental recovery programme in south-west Haiti that aims to benefit more than 200,000 people and show that sustainable rural development, from fisheries to tourism, is indeed practical. Lessons learned during the execution[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–30 December 2010 – United Nations humanitarian officials are calling for “massive mobilization activities” in Haiti to promote prevention and early treatment in the cholera epidemic which has already killed more than 2,760 people and infected over 130,000 others, nearly 71,000 of whom were hospitalized. Major gaps and constraints[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–29 December 2010 – Farmers in north-western Haiti are likely to lose a significant portion of their rice harvest due to reluctance to work in paddy fields they fear are contaminated by the cholera-causing bacteria, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said today, adding that it is[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–18 December 2010 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appealed to the world yesterday for more funds to fight the cholera epidemic in Haiti that has already killed more than 2,400 people and infected nearly 110,000 others, 55,000 of whom had to be hospitalized. At the same time, he announced the[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–15 December 2010 – The United Nations is exploring the establishment of an international scientific panel to look into the source of the cholera epidemic in Haiti. “We are calling for an international panel and we are in discussions with WHO [the UN World Health Organization] to find the[Read More…]

NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF)–13 December 2010 – With a three-day window opening today for candidates to formally lodge complaints in Haiti’s disputed elections, the United Nations and its partners have called on all concerned to use these legal means and to urge their supporters to avoid further violence. A communiqué issued in[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–10 December 2010 – The Security Council today called on all sides in Haiti to refrain from further violence in the dispute over preliminary results from last month’s first round of presidential and legislative elections. In a press statement following a briefing from Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Alain LeRoy,[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–8 December 2010 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today appealed for an end to violence in Haiti following the announcement of preliminary election results in a country that has already been ravaged this year by a devastating earthquake and a raging cholera epidemic. “A peaceful solution to the current situation[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–3 December 2010 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called on the international community to provide immediate massive aid to Haiti to fight a deadly cholera epidemic raging through the impoverished country, warning that hundreds of thousands of lives are at risk. “Clearly, it will continue to spread, unfortunately,” he[Read More…]