Haïti : opposition à l’ingérence étrangère

’It is illusory to believe that an electoral process can be carried out in Haiti’

On February 7, amid an atmosphere of political decline and heightened crisis, the mandate of Haiti’s transitional presidential council came to an end. Parliamentary and presidential elections are scheduled for August 30 and December 16, 2026. However, these elections are unlikely to happen, (…)

• Frédéric Thomas

Handling Financial Crises in the South

When history repeats itself, the first time is a tragedy; the next is a farce. If we fail to learn from past financial crises, we risk making avoidable errors, often with tragic consequences. Between rock and hard place Many people worldwide suffered greatly during the 2008-2009 global (…)

• Jomo Kwame Sundaram

Haiti

“You can’t eradicate the problem of armed gangs in Haiti with weapons alone. Our young people need jobs”

Since 29 February 2024, Haiti has been in the grip of a new wave of armed gang violence. Prime Minister Ariel Henry, who was travelling abroad at the time, found himself unable to return to the country. Washington, which had previously been alone in backing him, proceeded to withdraw its support (…)

• Frédéric Thomas

Violence in Haiti : “What interests the armed gangs is chaos”

Since the end of February, the heavily armed gangs that are proliferating in Haiti have regrouped to attack strategic targets. The security and political crisis now seems to have reached a point of no return. Analysis of the situation by Frédéric Thomas (CETRI) in the L’Obs (translation of an (…)

• Frédéric Thomas

North Ignores ‘Perfect Storm’ in Global South

A gathering ‘perfect storm’ – due to various developments, several quite deliberate – now threatens much devastation in the global South, likely to most hurt the poorest and most vulnerable. Globalisation’s protracted decline The age of globalization had mixed consequences, unevenly (…)

• Jomo Kwame Sundaram

The Sudan crisis has been simmering for a long time

The Sudanese state has been governed by patrimonial order where loyalty is rewarded with patronage. The weakness of central state institutions has enabled the paramilitary Janjaweed to carve out its own power base. An attempt to muscle in on this power by the army has led to the current crisis (…)

• Yohannes Woldemariam

Yemeni children starve to death amid endless war

The shocking images of around 2.2 million children under the age of 5 are not well fed. More than half a million are severely malnourished. More than a million pregnant or lactating women suffered from severe malnutrition this year. Every 10 minutes, a child in Yemen dies from a preventable (…)

How Bad Will the Developing-World Crisis Get ?

Every shock that has hit the world’s advanced economies in recent years – from the COVID-19 crisis to the war in Ukraine and the effects of Western sanctions on Russia – has hit poor and middle-income countries harder. Amid worsening food insecurity, spiking energy prices, and empty fiscal (…)

• Jayati Ghosh, Kent Harrington , Mauricio Cárdenas , Vera Songwe

’The situation in Haiti is going from bad to worse with no end in sight’

In an interview with Le Monde, political scientist Frédéric Thomas (CETRI) argues that the alliance between the Haitian oligarchy and the former colonial powers, France and the United States is at the origin of the ’Haitian misfortune.’ With a president assassinated in 2021, bankrupt (…)

• Frédéric Thomas, Nicolas Bourcier

Webinar - Haiti : Break the deadlock. Civil society’s response to the crisis

Recording of the online conference organised by Caroline Roose (Green/EFA Member of the European Parliament) and Centre tricontinental on the situation in Haiti, the role of civil society in the crisis and EU policy towards Haiti. At the end of May 2021, echoing the international Stop Silence (…)

• Frédéric Thomas

Sudan

Death toll continues to mount as pro-democracy protests rock Sudan

Amidst this country-wide civil rebellion, the military junta is speedily moving to reinstate the Islamist regime led by former dictator Omar al Bashir, who was ousted in April 2019 On Sunday, January 30, mass demonstrations against the military junta in Sudan saw hundreds of thousands of (…)

• Pavan Kulkarni

Violence in South Africa : an uprising of elites, not of the people

From time to time, South Africa is rudely reminded that its past continues to make its present and future difficult. It does not always recognise this reality when it sees it. The latest – and most shocking – reminder is the violence which followed the imprisonment of former president Jacob (…)

• Steven Friedman