This month, as every year since 2004, the United Nations Security Council agreed to extend its peacekeeping mission in Haiti. But the un is at last making plans for its departure. The budget of the mission, known as Minustah, is down by 30% in the past two years, and its head-count is at its lowest in a decade. Many Haitians may rejoice. They blame poor sanitary practice by Nepa-lese un troops for a cholera epidemic which has killed more than 8,000 people since 2010. The un denies responsibility, but on October 9th two ngos filed a claim against it in a New York court.
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