OAS warns Haiti needs help as it prepares to hold elections for the first time since 2016
The regional bloc says 1.4 million Haitians lacked official identification in January, slowing voter registration and raising doubts about the election timetable.
- Albert Ramdin, Organization of American States secretary-general, urged international partners on Thursday to accelerate security and electoral aid for Haiti during his Port-au-Prince visit.
- Gang violence controls an estimated 70% of Port-au-Prince, displacing a record 1.5 million people and blocking access to critical infrastructure, creating the primary obstacle to Haiti's fragile stability.
- To address slow registration for the Dec. 13 general elections, the OAS and Japan signed a $3 million grant to procure 350,000 blank identification cards.
- Ramdin emphasized the United Nations-authorized Gang Suppression Force requires more support, stating, "Renewal of the mandate alone will not be enough."
- Republican U.S. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart warned the OAS faces potential budget cuts unless the organization delivers measurable progress on Haiti's stability.
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The Organization of American States calls for the acceleration of voter registration, while 1.5 million citizens have been displaced within the country
"The timetable requires urgent acceleration" for voter registration, the secretary of the Organization of American States emphasizes, in view of the electoral process in Haiti. The post Haiti: Organization of American States wants acceleration of voter registration appeared first on in.gr.
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The Organization of American States (OAS) urged Haitian authorities on Wednesday to speed up voter registration, especially for the hundreds of thousands of people forcibly displaced by gang violence, ahead of the election process, which, at least in theory, will be held in less than four months, for the first time in a decade. “The electoral timetable requires urgent acceleration,” Albert Ramdin, the regional organization’s secretary general, s…
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