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PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – The United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) says it has resolved regulatory issues and will resume flights to Haiti on Wednesday.
UNHAS provides passenger and light cargo transportation in Haiti for the entire humanitarian community, including local and international non government organisations (NGOs) and UN entities.
Haiti has faced instability since the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse and earlier this month, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has banned flights to Haiti for at least the next 30 days, after gunmen fired upon US aircraft landing in the French Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country.
“Despite the temporary suspension of air transport, humanitarian operations continue actively in the Port-au-Prince area, although security conditions are unpredictable. In addition, humanitarian and recovery actions continue uninterrupted in the rest of the country,” said Ulrika Richardson, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Haiti.
The World Food Programme (WFP) has continued to provide life-saving food assistance to Haitians and last weekend, the WFP and its partners provided a record number of hot meals in a single day to people recently displaced by violence, serving 37,935 hot meals at 26 sites in Port-au-Prince and Arcahaie.
Since the beginning of the year, WFP said it has provided more than two million hot meals, which are prepared using locally grown and sourced ingredients wherever possible.
In parallel, WFP and its partners are currently distributing in-kind food assistance to 50,000 people in Croix-de-Bouquets, as part of a comprehensive distribution plan targeting more than 146,000 people in various neighbourhoods of Port-au-Prince by the end of the month.
In addition, more than 97,000 people will receive cash transfers through a social safety net in collaboration with the Economic and Social Affairs Fund (FAES).
Across the country, WFP, in collaboration with the Ministry of National Education and its partners, continues to provide daily school meals to more than 430,000 schoolchildren in 2,000 schools. 70 per cent of the meals are prepared entirely using locally grown ingredients.
Since November 11, 2024, UNICEF has provided cash transfers to nearly 1,500 displaced people in sites in the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince and distributed 5,000 hygiene kits and reached more than 24,000 people. In Saint Marc in Artibonite, 4,217 children benefit from child-friendly spaces set up by UNICEF.
The United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency (UNFPA) and IOM are continuing to deploy their mobile clinics in displacement sites.
