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Haiti’s Gangs: Can a Foreign Mission Break Their Stranglehold?
The UN Security Council has approved deployment of a Kenyan-led force to Haiti to help battle criminal gangs the police cannot subdue alone.
The mission will need to tread carefully – both in prior planning and once on the ground – to sidestep pitfalls in its path.
- ICG
What’s new?
Foreign security personnel are expected to begin arriving in Haiti in early 2024 to assist the national police in fighting the gangs besieging much of the country.
UN-authorised, Kenyan-led and designed with U.S. support, this multinational mission aims to restore security and enable long overdue elections.
Why does it matter?
Haiti’s wave of…