National palace guards set up security ring after gangs attack at least three police stations in Port-au-Prince
National Palace guards set up a security perimeter after armed gang members tried to seize the palace the day before in Port-au-Prince.National Palace guards set up a security perimeter after armed gang members tried to seize the palace the day before in Port-au-Prince.Police and palace guards worked on Saturday to retake some streets in Haiti’s capital after gangs launched massive attacks on at least three police stations.
Members of the Caribbean Community regional trade bloc have been trying for months to get political actors in Haiti to agree to form an umbrella transitional unity government. The Caricom statement said that while regional leaders remain deeply engaged in trying to bring opposition parties and civil society groups together to form a unity government, “the stakeholders are not yet where they need to be”.
Caricom has also pushed Henry to announce a power-sharing, consensus government in the meantime, but the prime minister has yet to do so even as Haitian opposition parties and civil society groups are demanding his resignation.US secretary of state Antony Blinken spoke with Kenyan president William Ruto about the Haiti crisis and the two men underscored their commitment to a multinational security mission to restore order, the state department said on Saturday.