Media Release : Sri Lanka Foreign Ministry
- Prevailing situation in Haiti
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is closely following the prevailing situation in Haiti.
The Ministry is in contact with companies operating in Haiti employing Sri Lankan nationals, and the companies have confirmed that the nationals are safe and away from the areas where there is ongoing unrest. The Embassy of Sri Lanka in Cuba accredited to Haiti remains in regular contact with the respective companies. (Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
- What’s happening in Haiti ?
Criminal gangs more powerful that Haiti’s state security forces have attacked prisons and the airport serving the country’s capital, forcing businesses and schools to close and driving an estimated 15,000 people from their homes in Port-au-Prince. On March 12, Prime Minister Ariel Henry announced that he would resign once a transitional presidential council was created, capitulating to international pressure as his country faced what some experts had already labelled a low-scale civil war.