With gangs continuing to block the entrance to Haiti’s seaports and the country’s main fuel terminal, the United Nations and its partners are asking for the opening of a “humanitarian corridor” to allow the release of fuel and aid workers to move freely without fear for their safety to respond to the worsening crisis.
The appeal comes amid a resurgence of cholera, which risks infecting and killing thousands of people as Haitians increasingly find themselves without access to clean water because of an ongoing blockade of fuel by a powerful gang coalition, the G-9 federation, now in its fourth week.
The appeal joins a similar call for “a humanitarian truce” launched earlier this week by Canada’s ambassador to Haiti, Sébastien Carrière, on behalf of more than a dozen ambassadors and special representatives assigned to Port-au-Prince.
