2026-01-12

MSF suspends Bel Air operations after January 6 clashes kill community volunteer; only 40 percent of capital medical facilities operational. Andresol promises routes to South and North will reopen before February 7, directly addressing National Route No. 1 impassability at Montrouis. January 6-9 PNH counteroffensives in Bel Air and Varreux area demonstrate 31-day pause refers to gang attack restraint, not security force operations. Gonaieves Deschaos neighborhood paralyzed since January 8 after death of armed man; Cap-Haitien demolitions on January 9 generate OPC condemnation. Haiti observes January 12 earthquake commemoration marking 16th anniversary of disaster that killed over 200,000 people.