Haiti could face ‘chaos’ without more international support, UN envoy warns

Makeshift tents fill a camp set up by people displaced from their homes by gang violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti (Odelyn Joseph/AP)

The top UN official in Haiti sounded an alarm to the organisation’s Security Council that escalating gang violence is liable to lead the Caribbean nation to “a point of no return”.

Maria Isabel Salvador warned on Monday that “Haiti could face total chaos” without increased funding and support for the operation of the Kenya-led multinational force helping Haiti’s police to tackle the gangs’ expanding violence into areas beyond the capital, Port-Au-Prince.