Can Haiti’s police hold on?
Help is taking time to arrive, as politics delays an international security mission
Haiti is waiting. Gangs control large parts of the capital, Port-au-Prince. The government of Kenya, which has proposed leading a UN-approved mission to secure Haiti, has said it will not send any forces until a transitional government is in place to take over from Ariel Henry, the exiled prime minister. More than two weeks after Mr Henry said he would step down, a newly formed transitional council has not been able to agree on who would lead it in order to form that government. Two of its members have already dropped out.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “Hanging by a thread”
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