Haiti: MSF closes its Martissant emergency center
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The Martissant emergency center, in Haiti, on May 31, 2021 © VALERIE BAERISWYL / AFP
By: Mikaël Ponge Follow |
Mikaël Ponge Follow
23 mins
It is a decision that says a lot about the situation in the Haitian capital.
The Médecins sans Frontières teams announce that they have gone out of business and left their Martissant emergency center after 15 years of presence.
The security situation had become untenable for the NGO.
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At the end of June 2021 MSF, installed for 15 years in Martissant, had taken the decision to temporarily suspend the activities of its emergency center in order to alert on the situation in this western district of the capital Port-au-Prince, theater of a gang war since the beginning of the month. A month after
"the situation continues, the humanitarian medical organization is therefore forced to shut down,
" said MSF in a press release published on August 2, 2021. MSF's activities in Martissant were targeted, just in the vicinity. immediately from the Center, a population of approximately 300,000 people. In 2020, more than 33,000 patients were received there. The NGO says it is
"determined to continue supporting the Haitian population
" and ensures that the discussions will continue in order to be able to
"Relocate its emergency center in the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince
".
In Mexico, a referendum that flops
The referendum called Sunday August 1, 2021 by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on the advisability of investigating and prosecuting his predecessors for alleged corruption had a very low turnout, far from the required quorum.
Less than 8% of the roughly 94 million voters took part.
However, it would have taken at least 40% turnout for the ballot to be translated into law.
"The referendum failed", logically headlines the Reforma newspaper.
Western United States facing fires and drought
All weekend, American firefighters have remained mobilized to try to regain the upper hand in the face of the huge fires that are ravaging the western United States. More than a million hectares have been destroyed since the beginning of this summer 2021. More than ten states are concerned by these mega fires, such as the Dixie fire which devours the forests of California. A phenomenon that has been repeated in recent years, and which is largely explained by an unprecedented drought, as our guest, the geographer David Blanchon, author of the book
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"What was an abnormally dry season before, will become normal in the years 2030/2040
"
, therefore the question is asked of the model on which the development of the western United States is based.
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