PEACEKEEPING: ‘U.N. votes to end Haiti task ‘, Arkansas Gazette-Democrat, 14 April 2017; and ‘U.N. Votes Unanimously to End Peacekeeping Mission in Haiti’, New York Times, 13 April 2017

The Security Council voted unanimously to end the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Haiti in mid-October after 13 years. The peacekeepers aided the country after political upheaval in 2004 and a 2010 earthquake that killed at least 300,000 people -- including the head of the U.N. mission -- as well as Hurricane Matthew, which caused widespread devastation in October. But they also leave under a cloud. U.N. troops from Nepal are widely blamed for introducing cholera that has killed at least 9,500 people in Haiti since 2010. And some troops also have been implicated in sexual abuse, including of hungry children. 'U.N. votes to end Haiti task ', Arkansas Gazette-Democrat, 14 April 2017; and 'U.N. Votes Unanimously to End Peacekeeping Mission in Haiti', New York Times, 13 April 2017