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		</div><p>Haiti’s government is extending a state of emergency and night-time curfew to try to curb violent gang attacks that have paralysed the capital of Port-au-Prince amid a fierce political battle for power.</p>
<p>An initial three-day curfew was announced over the weekend but gangs have continued to attack police stations and other state institutions at night as Haiti’s National Police struggles to contain the violence with limited staff and resources.</p>
<p>The attacks began a week ago shortly after embattled Prime Minister Ariel Henry agreed to hold general elections in mid-2025 while attending a meeting of Caribbean leaders.</p>
<figure id="attachment_181641" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-181641" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/15D61F5F-6698-499F-9595-7D15FAF6A205.webp" alt="" width="640" height="427" class="size-full wp-image-181641" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-181641" class="wp-caption-text">A vendor carries empty containers for fuel in Port-au-Prince</figcaption></figure>
<p>Mr Henry is currently in Puerto Rico, where he was forced to land on Tuesday after the armed groups laid siege to the international airport, preventing him from returning.</p>
<p>Scores of people have died in the recent attacks including several police officers. The violence has left more than 15,000 people homeless.</p>
<p>A US defence official said a Marine Corps Fleet Anti-terrorism Security Team, or FAST team, is being deployed to Haiti to protect the US Embassy.</p>
<p>“The people with the guns are essentially the current arbiter of Haitian politics,” said Robert Fatton, a Haitian politics expert at the University of Virginia. “The gangs have won the battle so far.”</p>
<p>“The country is falling apart, and everyone is watching,” said Mr Fatton, who criticised the US government for not taking action more than two years ago and lamented the current state of Haiti. “I am dumbfounded. I thought I had seen everything.”</p>
<p>Gunfire still echoed in parts of Port-au-Prince on Thursday, with blazing tyres blocking some areas as people demanded new leaders for the battered country.</p>
<p>Schools and businesses remained closed but calm returned to a handful of neighbourhoods that saw some stores and banks open under a limited schedule.</p>
<p>Germain Andre, a 40-year-old shop owner who sells rice, oil, beans, milk and other basic goods, said he is having trouble finding provisions given dwindling food supplies across Port-au-Prince as people move around in fear.</p>
<p>“Travelling is very scary,” he said, noting that armed groups have stopped cars. “No one is secure. Everyone is scared of each other now. We don’t know if they’re gang members.”</p>
<p>On Wednesday, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the US ambassador to the United Nations, said the US has asked Mr Henry to “move forward on a political process that will lead to the establishment of a presidential transitional council that will lead to elections”.</p>
<p>Shortly afterward, US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller echoed her remarks, saying Mr Henry “needs to expedite the transition to empowered and inclusive governance”.</p>
<p>Mr Henry has not made any public comments since the gang attacks began last week.</p>
<p>On Thursday, Guyanese President Irfaan Ali said Caribbean leaders have been working around the clock to help find a political consensus to alleviate Haiti’s crisis.</p>
<p>“It is indeed a distressing situation for the region, but we have a responsibility to do everything we can do to enable the Haitian people to find a consensus and to find a path that is Haitian-led and Haitian-owned in bringing together a level of stability and normalcy that the Haitian people so richly deserve,” he said.</p>
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