“It was a firm, candid conversation,” Haley said in an interview afterward. She warned against prolonging elections into 2019 or after, saying that would risk the loss of international legitimacy. “It’s not up to the government, nor to Ms. Haley, to organize the elections,” Mende said in a statement, according to Reuters. “Every day we don’t have elections in this country, another woman gets raped, another child becomes a soldier,” Haley said. “All of this has to stop, and the only way they will stop is if we have peaceful elections.”

Source: Washington Post October 27, 2017 21:33 UTC