International effort to help Haiti fight deadly gangs is in danger of falling apart

From the onset, the international mission to help Haiti wrest back control from armed gangs faced challenges and skepticism. There were legal challenges in Nairobi and push-back in Washington from congressional Republicans as the Biden administration sought to provide the first $40 million in seed money to get the Kenya-led mission going, as a united front of powerful armed gangs mounted a broad assault in Port-au-Prince to take down the government. Now, nearly a year after the arrival of the first 200 Kenyan police officers in June of 2024, the...