Haiti After Kenya

Commands like [map.highlight] are Stagehand directives — they control the map renderer and pass through schema validation before any visual effect reaches the public output.

[map.view lat=19 lon=-72.5 zoom=7.5]
[entity.propose id="country:haiti" type="country" name="Haiti" lon=-72.2852 lat=18.9712]
[entity.propose id="city:port_au_prince" type="city" name="Port-au-Prince" lon=-72.3388 lat=18.5392]
[entity.propose id="country:kenya" type="country" name="Kenya" lon=37.9062 lat=-0.0236]
[entity.propose id="country:dominican_republic" type="country" name="Dominican Republic" lon=-70.1627 lat=18.7357]
[map.highlight ids="country:haiti" color="#E53E3E" opacity=0.7]
[map.spotlight id="city:port_au_prince"]
Eighty-five percent of Port-au-Prince is controlled by armed gangs. Not partially. Not in contested neighborhoods. Eighty-five percent. Five-point-seven million Haitians face severe food insecurity. Eleven thousand people were killed in gang violence between early 2024 and the end of 2025. One-point-four million are displaced — half of them children.

[chat.say source="crisis_group_haiti_gang_alliance_2026"]
[map.label ids="city:port_au_prince" text="85% under gang control"]
The Kenyan-led security mission, which deployed in June 2024, has withdrawn. Two hundred fifteen Kenyan police left in March 2026. Their eighteen-month mission did not substantially change the security situation. The gangs are more powerful now than when Kenya arrived.

[scene.title kind=chapter eyebrow="Clio Short" title="Haiti After Kenya" subtitle="The Gang Suppression Force Arrives"]
[scene.title kind=clear]
[map.view lat=19 lon=-72 zoom=7]
[map.highlight ids="country:haiti" color="#E53E3E" opacity=0.6]
[map.highlight ids="country:dominican_republic" color="#276749" opacity=0.3]
[chat.say source="un_haiti_gang_suppression_force_2026"]
A new force is arriving: the UN-backed Gang Suppression Force, with a broader mandate to directly target armed groups. Approximately fifty-five hundred personnel. The first contingent includes troops from Chad, currently training in the United States. The full transition runs through October 2026.

[chat.say source="new_humanitarian_haiti_gsf_2026"]
[map.label ids="country:haiti" text="Gang Suppression Force: 5,500 personnel"]
The GSF has a wider mandate than Kenya did. But Haiti has seen international forces before — MINUSTAH deployed for thirteen years and left the gangs intact. The structural conditions have not changed: a collapsed state, zero legitimate economic opportunity in the capital, and armed groups that have governed neighborhoods for a generation. The question is not whether the GSF can suppress — it is whether suppression can outlast the mission.

[scene.title kind=outro title="Haiti After Kenya" subtitle="Follow Clio for more."]