Total Pageviews

Friday, 2 December 2016

UN apologizes to Haiti over cholera epidemic...

On Thursday,for the first time UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon apologized to the people of Haiti for the role played by the world body’s peacekeepers in sparking a devastating cholera epidemic in the country.
“On behalf of the United Nations, I want to say very clearly we apologize to the Haitian people,” he said three times — in Haitian Creole, French and English.

“We simply did not do enough with regards to the cholera outbreak and its spread in Haiti,” Ban said. “We are profoundly sorry for our role.”

AFP

No comments:

Post a Comment