https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/world/un-security-council-approves-deploying-a-kenya-led-force-to-haiti-to-fight-gangs

The resolution authorizes the force to deploy for one year, with a review after nine months. It would mark the first time a force is deployed to Haiti since a U.N.-approved mission nearly 20 years ago.

UN Security Council approves deploying a Kenya-led force to Haiti to fight gangs

Weird how all these former French colonies have such problems. I'd expand on this point, but don't want to get in trouble for being too "expressive". Meanwhile, the other half of Hispañola is doing great, with the World Bank noting "The Dominican Republic has been one of the fastest growing economies in Latin America and the Caribbean in the last decade". But in conclusion, I don't see anyone messing around with in Haiti; we should just sit back and note that culture is often decisive in determining national outcomes.

 earlier this year I watched the somewhat unconventional film "Bamako" about Mali (one review is below) and part of the problem is the scapegoating of the World Bank and IMF as if countries are forced to run massive fiscal deficits and cede part of their sovereignty to these organizations. But the root cause is bad institutions and corruption, and those factors are influenced by both the precolonial culture+ the influence of the colonizing country. Culture has the turn radius of a hot air balloon, so given those difficulties, it makes sense that people pick more proximal (though incorrect) targets for their ire. It's just unlucky that not all countries in the global south were colonized by Great Britain. 

https://www.reuters.com/article/film-africa-west-film-dc/mali-film-puts-wests-blueprint-for-africa-on-trial-idUKL1283705220070112

Africa's poorest are even worse off than they were a quarter of a century ago and despite years of debt relief, humanitarian aid and the goodwill of fund-raising rock stars, the West is to blame.

Mali film puts West's blueprint for Africa on trial

 you're not the only one 😅, was googling this just yesterday.

>Since 1990, a striking 78% of the 27 coups in sub-Saharan Africa have occurred in Francophone states leading some commentators to ask whether France - or the legacy of French colonialism - is to blame?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-66406137

The recent wave of military takeovers have all been in former French colonies - is this a coincidence?

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