Haiti: a month after the earthquake, the slow reconstruction in the South
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Numerous schools were devastated by the earthquake that hit southwestern Haiti on August 14, 2021. (Illustrative image) © Stefanie Schüler / RFI
By: Marion Cazanove
21 mins
A month ago to the day, the south of the country was hit by a deadly earthquake of magnitude 7.2.
A month later, reconstruction is organized, thousands of families still depend on humanitarian aid.
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2,200 dead, 13,000 injured and tens of thousands of victims. The earthquake of August 14, 2021 caused heavy human and material damage, reminiscent of the nightmare of the earthquake of January 12, 2010. Today, help to the affected Haitians came first from the Haitians themselves, in the country, but also from the diaspora. In the field, civil protection teams continue to distribute food aid, but the money is lacking to carry out this mission. This is what Jerry Chandler, the director of Civil Protection, deplores at the microphone of Amélie Baron: "
The real costs, for us, concern the convoys: paying the drivers, renting additional vehicles linked to security, for us. to accompany
".
According to the latest report from the Emergency Operation Center, 20,000 people survive today in makeshift camps, while authorities say they will not repeat the mistakes of 2010.
Haiti: Ariel Henry signs governance agreement with opposition organizations
Le Nouvelliste
speaks today of a "
small political battle
". The interim Prime Minister, Ariel Henry, proposes an agreement to end the crisis that he tries to get signed by as many political actors as possible. The agreement includes a consensus government headed exclusively by the Prime Minister, a government to be formed in the coming days with the political forces signatory to the agreement, a supervisory authority is also planned, but also the main projects put in place by Jovenel Moses, namely constitutional reform. "
There is still a long way to go, Ariel Henry plans to meet this week with the Civil Society Dialogue Commission.
The consensus is not enough, even at the level of the traditional allies of power,
”said Gotson Pierre, editor-in-chief of the Haitian Alterpresse Agency.
“
What is being played out today can be summed up in two words: continuity and rupture.
Much of society is tired of the disastrous governance of recent years.
This results in unheard-of gang violence.
The country needs to be pacified and stabilized, ”
he concludes.
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