Haiti on the brink: island nation falls into anarchy

The country no longer has any democratically elected officials as it faces a humanitarian crisis

A man walks past a burning barricade during a protest against Haitian prime minister Ariel Henry in Port-au-Prince in October
A protest against Haitian prime minister Ariel Henry in Port-au-Prince in October
(Image credit: Richard Pierrin/AFP via Getty Images)

Haiti’s political and humanitarian crisis has deepened as the country’s ten remaining senators left office, leaving the country without any democratically elected officials.

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 Sorcha Bradley is a writer at The Week and a regular on “The Week Unwrapped” podcast. She worked at The Week magazine for a year and a half before taking up her current role with the digital team, where she mostly covers UK current affairs and politics. Before joining The Week, Sorcha worked at slow-news start-up Tortoise Media. She has also written for Sky News, The Sunday Times, the London Evening Standard and Grazia magazine, among other publications. She has a master’s in newspaper journalism from City, University of London, where she specialised in political journalism.