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Radio stations across Haiti became jammed on Friday as callers competed to ask the same question: What’s next? The Caribbean nation, the poorest in the Western hemisphere, has sunk further into chaos and impunity since the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse nearly three years ago. Armed gangs control 80 per cent of the capital, Port-au-Prince, killing thousands and driving more than 200,000 from their homes. Rape has become a “systematic” feature of the gang violence, the head of the UN human rights section in Haiti told the Washington Post. Abortion is illegal; justice is impossible as the courts system has broken down. The local police are outgunned. Plan A was for Kenya to send a 1,000-strong force of Kenyan police officers to restore some level of security, backed by US funding and UN support. But on Friday, the move was blocked by a Kenyan court – and for now, there is no plan B.