IMF Answered Inner City Press on Cameroon as it Asks About Haiti and UN Now for 2026 Spring Meetings

IMF Answered Inner City Press on Cameroon as it Asks About Haiti and UN Now for 2026 Spring Meetings By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Video SDNY COURTHOUSE, April 6 – When the International Monetary Fund held its biweekly embargoed press briefing back on July 15, 2021, Inner City Press asked about crypto-currency legislation in Paraguay and again El Salvador, about the assassination in Haiti and COVID-19 lack of transparency in Cameroon. Short video on Twitter here; YouTube here.   Jump cut to the IMF's 2023 Spring Meetings on April 14, 2023. Inner City Press submitted a question for the Africa briefing, and tweeted it: "To IMF annual meeting, Inner City Press has just asked on WebEx about what the IMF calls "missed targets" - what is the status of Biya's audit of $335 million in missing COVID funds?  Also, #Ambazonia. What *are* the "accelerated reforms" the IMF's Sayeh refers to?"  See March 2023 answer to Inner City Press (on Tunisia) here. Jump cut again to April 6, 2026, in the run up to the 2026 Spring meetings which Inner City Press will cover. The IMF concluded a review of Haiti's economic program finding that the country's economy contracted for a seventh consecutive year in fiscal year 2025, with inflation at 22 percent, persistent gang violence disrupting economic activity, and the Middle East war adding new pressure through higher oil prices. (This is a trend). The IMF's staff statement, issued April 6, 2026 following a virtual mission conducted March 23 through April 1, found that Haiti ostensibly met all targets under its Staff-Monitored Program as of end-December 2025 — including on international reserves, which reached $1.76 billion — but painted a bleak picture of the underlying economic and humanitarian situation. The statement contains a notable reference to the United Nations and its (bogus) "Gang Suppression Force." Actually, the UN's role in Haiti has been mostly negative since 2010, when UN peacekeepers introduced cholera to the country, killing thousands, and the organization spent years denying responsibility then under Antonio Guterres typically asserting complete legal impunity, as on censorship.  The UN's new "support office" is its latest attempt to purport to stabilize a country still dealing with the consequences of its earlier presence. Beyond the UN, the IMF's statement flagged several compounding crises. Hurricane Melissa struck in October 2025, disrupting economic activity. The transitional government's mandate expired, creating institutional paralysis. International oil prices, driven higher by the Middle East war, are raising Haiti's import bill and implicit fuel subsidy costs. And uncertainty over the potential end of Temporary Protected Status for Haitian migrants in the United States, which Inner City Press also covers, threatens to reduce the remittance flows that currently keep Haiti's current account broadly balanced — remittances are projected to exceed all of Haiti's export earnings. Haiti has requested an extension of its Staff-Monitored Program through June 2027. The IMF is not providing direct financial support, but the review is intended to build a track record that could eventually support access to IMF credit. Inner City Press will cover the IMF and World Bank Spring Meetings in Washington April 13-16, 2026... (An aside: Inner City Press has reported on the CEFC China Energy Fund Committee's activities in Chad and Uganda and in the UN, on which the UN is UNresponsive.) We'll have more on this. *** Your support means a lot. As little as $5 a month helps keep us going and grants you access to exclusive bonus material on our Patreon page. Click here to become a patron. Feedback: Editorial [at] innercitypress.com Mail: Box 130222 NY NY 10013 Other, earlier Inner City Press are listed here, and some are available in the ProQuest service, and now on Lexis-Nexis.  Copyright 2006-2025 Inner City Press, Inc. To request reprint or other permission, e-contact Editorial [at] innercitypress.com