NTV Kenya: UN to resume Haiti aid flights after planes hit by gunfire - News Summed Up

NTV Kenya: UN to resume Haiti aid flights after planes hit by gunfire


UN to resume Haiti aid flights after planes hit by gunfireThe United Nations Humanitarian Air Service will restart flights within Haiti on Wednesday after around a week’s hiatus and resolving regulatory issues, according to a statement from the U.N. World Food Programme, which manages the service. The U.N. paused flights to Haiti’s capital last Tuesday, a day after gangs struck three commercial planes with gunfire, prompting the U.S. aviation regulator to ban U.S. airlines from flying to the conflict-ravaged Caribbean nation for 30 days. “UNHAS provides passenger and light cargo transport in Haiti for the entire humanitarian community, including local and international NGOs,” WFP said in a statement, adding that the suspension had not affected food supplies. Even as the flights restarted, armed violence continued in parts of the capital Port-au-Prince such as Lower Delmas. “The isolation of Port-au-Prince is amplifying an already dire humanitarian situation,” the IOM Haiti chief Gregoire Goodstein said in a statement, adding that only 20% of the capital was accessible to humanitarian workers.


Source: Daily Nation November 20, 2024 05:57 UTC



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