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Both the national police and a UN-backed security force have failed to staunch the year-long insurgency, with more than a million people displaced

Tom Phillips and Etienne Côté-Paluck in Jacmel
Sun 23 Mar 2025 09.00 GMT

By day, the stressed-out Haitian police officer patrols the streets of his beleaguered city with an Israeli assault rifle to do his bit to resist the onslaught of the gangs. By night, the 28-year-old returns home to his increasingly empty neighbourhood wondering what calamity may unfold as he rests.

“Yesterday afternoon … there was panic, heavy gunfire … It was tense … there was continuous gunfire throughout the day,” the officer said this week as the battle for control of Port-au-Prince raged on.

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Cover photo : Jean Feguens Regala/Reuters