Haiti's leaders face a high-stakes balancing act as Kenyan forces arrive in the violence-wracked country, where security is desperately needed and the new, unelected government must also win over ordinary Haitians. The Haitian transitional government and its international backers say the Kenyan policing mission is essential for wresting control from gangs that have seized much of the capital. At the same time, interim Prime Minister Garry Conille must handle the memories of previous deadly foreign interventions that hang over the nation.
"After (the Kenyans) leave, the same things will happen again," one Port-au-Prince resident, who declined to share his name, told AFP. "The real solution won't come from foreigners. It's not up to them," he added, calling on the country's fractious politicians to "unite to move forward.
" Haiti has long been rocked by gang violence but conditions sharply worsened at the end of February, when armed groups launched coordinated attacks in Port-au-Prince, saying they wanted to overthrow then-prime minister Ariel Henry. Henry has since handed over power to a transitional council, which named Conille -- currently in Washington to meet with US officials -- as the country's prime minister. His transitional government's job is monumental: to relieve the political, security and humanitarian crises devastating the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and to pave the way for the first elections since 2016.
"No official in Haiti has been elected, ther.
