PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, May 25 — Haiti is waiting desperately for the first members of a Kenyan-led multinational force tasked with ending the stranglehold of powerful and...
A police tank patrols the area where armed gangs have spread terror, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti , on May 24, 2024. — AFP picPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti , May 25 — Haiti is waiting desperately for the first members of a Kenyan-led multinational force tasked with ending the stranglehold of powerful and ultra-violent gangs, but their hoped-for arrival this week was delayed.
The UN-backed security mission — in which the United States is providing logistical support, but not boots on the ground — is supposed to help Haiti’s weak, outgunned police force defeat the powerful criminal gangs.Gangs control much of the capital, Port-au-Prince, as well as swathes of the country, and have long terroized people with random shootings, kidnappings and sexual violence.
“Once we have that assessment ... we are looking at the horizon of between three weeks and there about for us to be ready to deploy, once everything on the ground is set,” Ruto told the BBC during his visit to Washington. The last election was in 2016, and a new transitional government council is struggling to assert its authority, with food running short, tens of thousands fleeing their homes and the health care system on the brink of collapse.
One possibility behind the change in the intensity of their attacks is that the gangs may be saving ammunition for a big onslaught against the multinational force, Da Rin said.
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