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Port-au-Prince, 15 October 2019 - The United Nations Mission for Justice Support in Haiti (MINUJUSTH) completed its mandate on 15 October 2019, bringing to a close 15 consecutive years of peacekeeping in the country.
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The Senegalese Formed Police Unit was the last to leave Haiti, putting an end to 15 consecutive years of peacekeeping operations in the country. Photo: Leonora Baumann
UN peacekeepers conduct a patrol in the volatile neighbourhood of Bel-Air in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince in April 2004. © Sophia Paris / UN / MINUSTAH, 2004
Eight women, among them Mima Gentile (Canada), Yousra Ben Belgacem (Tunisia), Winifred Chigozie Ezeanyika (Nigeria), Afodor Ablavi Koudadje (Togo) and Karine Lessard (Canada), shared their experience as women peacekeepers with MINUJUSTH. © UNPOL Djibrilla M. Hafizou / UN / MINUJUSTH, 2019
125 officers from the last MINUJUSTH Jordanian police contingent left Haiti on 22 August to return to their country and reunite with their families as part of the gradual withdrawal of the last two formed police units of the mission. © UNPOL Marième Debo MBodj / UN / MINUJUSTH, 2019
126 officers from the last MINUJUSTH Indian police contingent left Haiti on the 21st of July to return to their country and reunite with their families as part of the gradual withdrawal of the last four formed police units of the mission. © UNPOL Djibrilla M. Hafizou / UN / MINUJUSTH, 2019
The Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres. Photo: ONU/Mark Garten. (archive)
