![A demonstrator takes part in a protest against Haiti's President Jovenel Moise, in Port-au-Prince, on February 14 [Jeanty Junior Augustin/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/2021-02-15T054314Z_1859635108_RC2OSL96DX2T_RTRMADP_3_HAITI-POLITICS.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
Opposition and civil society leaders say President Jovenel Moise’s term is over. He and his supporters say otherwise.
Haiti
The Haitian foreign minister discusses his country’s ongoing political crisis.
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Arnel Joseph is among several dead after an exchange of gunfire near Port-au-Prince.
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The director of the prison on the outskirts of Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince was among those killed.
![A protester chants anti-government slogans to demand the resignation of President Jovenel Moise in Port-au-Prince [Dieu Nalio Chery/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/AP_21041799811059.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Police accused of attacking journalists who were covering protests against President Jovenel Moise in Port-au-Prince.
![A police officer shoots tear gas towards a group of journalists gathered to cover a protest against the Haitian president, in Port-au-Prince on Wednesday [Valerie Baeriswyl/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/000_92P6C3.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Police fired tear gas on people marching against President Jovenel Moise in Port-au-Prince targeted reporters.
![Haiti's President Jovenel Moise says his mandate expires in February 2022, an interpretation of the constitution that has been rejected by the opposition [File: Andres Martinez Casares/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/2020-03-02T204403Z_683234368_RC2WBF9NZVB5_RTRMADP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-HAITI.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Opposition leaders and rights groups say Haitian President Jovenel Moise’s mandate expires on Sunday.
![Amid mounting protests, the United States, which is Haiti's biggest donor, warned that the government should exercise restraint until the elections take place [File: Andres Martinez Casares/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/2020-11-18T224819Z_1328896590_RC2Y5K92ZYH4_RTRMADP_3_HAITI-ANNIVERSARY.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Protesters want unpopular Haitian President Jovenel Moise to leave office by Sunday as political turmoil deepens.
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Nine out of 10 people in dozens of poor nations could miss out on getting vaccinated against coronavirus next year.
![Hundreds participate in anti-government protest in Port-au-Prince. The opposition organised a large demonstration against President Jovenel Moise, coinciding with the anniversary of the death of independence hero Jean Jacques Dessalines. [Jean Marc Herve Abelard/EPA]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/h_56430042-1.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Several people left injured after the latest unrest during more than a year of protests in Haiti.
Haiti has long been a fragile nation, where most people live on less than $2 a day.
![Street vendors cross a flooded street during Tropical Storm Laura in Port-au-Prince, Haiti [Dieu Nalio Chery/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/94df6af9d21c49478abd971ce702ca8f_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Tropical Storm Laura causes destruction in Haiti and the Dominican Republic as it trails Hurricane Marco.
![Emmanuel 'Toto' Constant in 2000 was convicted in absentia in Haiti following a trial for the 1994 massacre in Raboteau, a shantytown in the northern coastal town of Gonaives [File:John McConnico/AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/e084f0d0cd264843aa831378a508b21d_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Emmanuel ‘Toto’ Constant has been accused of atrocities including the killings at least 3,000 between 1991 and 1994.
![A patient being treated for cholera is seen at the Samaritan's Purse International Relief Medical Center in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on March 16, 2011 [Shannon Stapleton/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/df31887cd64f4d94aea4aad5b0cf4406_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
In this time of extraordinary global challenges, the UN is obligated to remedy the harm it caused in Haiti urgently.