Violence-ridden Haiti in limbo as transitional council wraps up

"Once again, we have the impression of being back to square one," former Prime Minister Jean-Michel Lapin told AFP. With the council's mandate expiring on Saturday, the current US-backed prime minister faces the monumental task of running parliamentary and presidential elections in August, the country's first elections in nearly a decade. While he enjoys the support of Washington, premier Alix Fils-Aime faces deeply divided political elites, whose support he will need to hold the vote, and a traumatized...