Earlier today, Jonathan Katz tweeted the link to this Associated Press report on Google News: UN names new acting head for mission in Haiti. Excerpt:
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday appointed a seasoned humanitarian worker to serve as his Acting Special Representative in Haiti to oversee the world body's peacekeeping mission in the Caribbean nation.
Nigel Fisher, a Canadian, replaces outgoing U.N. envoy Mariano Fernandez, who is leaving the job after 20 months. Fernandez has said he may consider a foray into politics in his native Chile.
Fisher has been Ban Ki-moon's Deputy Special Representative for Haiti since 2010. That year, a massive earthquake struck the country, killing tens of thousands of people and leaving 1.5 million more homeless.
He joined the international organization in 1977, and has held senior positions in the U.N. Office for Project Support Services, the U.N. Mission of Support in Afghanistan and the children's agency UNICEF. His assignments have taken him to a dozen countries in Asia, the Middle East and Africa.Jonathan also linked to a post of mine from over a year ago, one I'd actually forgotten, on Fisher's sometimes strange comments about cholera in Haiti. And given PAHO's mysterious recent deletion of six months' worth of posts on its forlorn little cholera blog, it's also a reminder of how badly the international community has behaved in pretending to look after Poor Haiti.
