In Port-au-Prince riots continued for the fourth consecutive day. Since Tuesday, protesters have attacked businesses and buildings housing government offices.
New riots and looting occurred yesterday Friday in various Haitian cities, following the government’s decision to raise the price of fuel, with protesters looting a World Food Program (WFP) warehouse.
This warehouse located in the city of Gonaive, Haiti’s third largest, contained 1,400 tons of food. On Thursday, he became the target of protesters, at a time when many people had taken to the streets of Port-au-Prince and other cities.
In a statement published yesterday, the WFP condemned the attack on its offices and the looting of the warehouse, stressing that the food it contained was intended for the school meal program and for the most vulnerable families and children in Haiti, a country that is increasingly sinking deep in crisis.
“This incident is simply unacceptable. The looted food would feed nearly 100,000 schoolchildren by the end of the year,” said Jean-Martin Bauer, WFP Haiti director.
Looting also occurred elsewhere in Gonaive and Saint-Marc, the two largest towns in the Artibonite region.
According to the newspaper Le Nouvelliste, the UN Office for Program Services (UNOPS), schools, a public university and several businesses were looted.
In Port-au-Prince riots continued for the fourth consecutive day. Since Tuesday, protesters have attacked businesses and buildings housing government offices.
On Thursday, protesters attacked and ransacked the office of the National Television of Haiti (TNH) and an office of the National Archives. Many shops and other businesses have also been looted and set on fire.
On Wednesday and Thursday, the residences of two government associates, lawyer André Michel and former senator Edmond Bozil, as well as the government’s Minister of Planning and External Cooperation, Richard Pierre, were targeted by the protesters.
In his message issued yesterday Friday by the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres declared “concerned about the situation in Haiti”.
Guterres called for calm and restraint, while calling on “all sides to take immediate steps to de-escalate the situation in order to avoid violence and allow the Haitian police to fulfill their role of protecting the population.”
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