Analysts say the fighting in the capital of the chronically unstable country is unprecedented and could be prolonged, despite regional and global calls for a ceasefire as diplomats mobilise.
Dozens of people have been killed and more than a hundred injured in a new round of deadly violence in Haiti’s largest slum that is aggravating fuel shortages, raising transportation costs and making an already troubling humanitarian crisis even worse.
Security forces who failed to uphold their duty to prevent the deadly violence are also being made legally liable, state media outlet Fana Broadcasting Corporate quoted Tassew as saying.