The mission, which would be organized outside the auspices of the United Nations, would represent the foreign intervention that Haiti’s government first pleaded for in October 2022. After Haiti’s chief prosecutor accused then-interim Prime Minister Ariel Henry of helping the killers, Henry fired him and has since ruled unelected. Crime has soared, with gangs kidnapping 300 people for ransom this year, close to the total for all of 2022 and triple the total in 2021. When Kenya’s assessment team arrives in the country in the coming weeks, it will therefore discover that Haiti’s crisis is not just a policing challenge. It is an urban warfare nightmare.

Source: The North Africa Journal August 12, 2023 00:24 UTC