HAITI’S appointed Prime Minister Garry Conille ordered gangs to surrender their weapons during a televised speech late on Wednesday, in which he acknowledged how dangerous life in Haiti’s capital and beyond has become.

Mr Conille was speaking a day after a second group of 200 Kenyan police officers arrived in Haiti to help quell widespread gang violence as part of a United States-sponsored mission led by the East African country.

He said: “Life every day in Port-au-Prince has turned into a battle for survival.