France announced on Sunday March 24 the establishment of special flights to allow its "most vulnerable" nationals to leave Haiti while commercial air links with Port-au-Prince are interrupted.
“The French embassy in Port-au-Prince remains open and continues its activity despite the degraded conditions,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs also specified in a statement sent to AFP. “It remains fully mobilized in support of the French community on site,” he adds.
These flights will be organized in coordination between the Ministry of the Armed Forces and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the latter indicates in a press release, without providing details on the vulnerability criteria which will be retained.
Haiti has descended into chaos and violence since the resignation on March 11 of Prime Minister Ariel Henry, who himself had been acting since the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse in 2021, against a backdrop of gang war for the control of traffic and power.
With Reuters and AFP
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