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Crisis Group’s Diego Da Rin on the difficulties of getting more aid to the multilateral security mission

Diego Da Rin

Analyst, Haiti

Haiti’s troubles have grown so dire that even UN officials are sounding the alarm in the bluntest terms possible. “Haiti has reached a pivotal moment”, María Isabel Salvador, the Secretary-General’s special representative, told the Security Council on 21 April. As gangs move closer to seizing full control of the capital, and the country’s humanitarian crisis worsens, Haiti is “approaching a point of no return”, she said.