PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – The Secretary-General of Haiti’s High Transition Council (HCT), Anthony Virginie Saint-Pierre, has been kidnapped according to the head of the committee which has been tasked with creating a roadmap for elections which have been penciled in for next year.
Haiti, which last had elections in 2016 and has been without elected representatives since January, is facing a crisis driven by powerful gangs who control large parts of the capital and have kidnapped hundreds of people. — Reuters