Dire situation: An armoured vehicle in Port-au-Prince on 2 April. The Haitian capital has become a battlefield between the forces of law and order and armed gangs. Photo: Getty Images
Kenya has temporarily halted its controversial plan to send a specially trained contingent of 1 000 police officers to Haiti, where armed gang violence recently took a turn for the worse. After a visit to Nairobi early last month, where he signed the terms for Kenya’s deployment, Haitian prime minister Ariel Henry was forced to resign as gangs took control of the…