After a year of stalling, the UN Security Council gave the go-ahead on Monday for a multinational mission led by Kenya to be sent to Haiti to help the police, who have been overtaken by gangs, a decision hailed as a "ray of hope" by Port-au-Prince.
This vote "is a ray of hope for the people who have been suffering for far too long from a difficult political, socio-economic, security, and humanitarian situation," immediately praised the Haitian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean Victor Généus, presen