There seems little the world can do for the moment, but simply watch Haiti slide further and further into anarchy.
Gangs control much of the capital, Port au Prince, where the bodies of at least a dozen people were discovered in a wealthy suburb today, amid fighting with machete wielding militias, trying the protect their own neighbourhoods.
America is hopeful a transitional council might be able to restore order along with the deployment of international troops, but for now the violence continues, as Will Grant, reports from Cap-Haitien.
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