Article 658ZH Haitian ambassador warns criminal gangs may overrun country

Haitian ambassador warns criminal gangs may overrun country

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Julian Borger in Washington
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Armed gangs have shut off access to Haiti's main fuel terminal, decimating basic services amid a cholera and hunger crisis

The Haitian ambassador to Washington has appealed to the international community to accelerate talks on deploying an armed intervention, warning that criminal gangs were in danger of taking over the country.

Bocchit Edmond made his appeal as efforts to agree to a UN resolution backing such a force appear to have stalled, and as the US and Canada have been holding urgent talks looking for ways to break the impasse.

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