Haiti: Kenya's mission exposes officers to risky, untested waters

Armed gangs patrol a street in Haiti. [Courtesy]

As the government crosses its fingers hoping that the courts will unblock its intention to intervene in Haiti, it is training five of its most elite security formations to face marauding criminal gangs in a country where past stabilization missions, led by world giants such as the United States, France, Canada and Brazil, have failed.

A new report by the UN has called for the urgent deployment of foreign forces in Haiti terming the gang violence there as "cataclysmic."