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Haiti sets new election dates as El Salvador sends troops to fight gangs and search for missing soldiers

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Haiti announces new election dates as 2,000 Salvadoran troops help fight gangs
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Haiti's government has announced new election dates while police and soldiers, backed by more than 2,000 troops from El Salvador, keep fighting armed gangs, according to ABC News. The Straits Times reports that El Salvador is deploying thousands of troops to Haiti, days after four Salvadoran members of a UN-backed force went missing in a gang ambush, and calls the deployment the first major overseas test of President Nayib Bukele's anti-gang tactics. Africanews reports the same election announcement and says the Salvadoran troops are arriving to back Haitian forces and to rescue the missing soldiers.

This continues an earlier story: El Salvador deploys 100 special forces to Haiti to search for 4 missing soldiers

Later: US approves El Salvador's troop surge into Haiti · Bukele warns Haitian gang leaders his forces will 'finish' them as he did in El Salvador

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  1. ABC News

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    ABC News reports that Haiti's government has announced new election dates as police and soldiers, backed by over 2,000 troops from El Salvador, fight gangs.

  2. The Straits Times

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    The Straits Times reports that El Salvador's deployment of thousands of troops to Haiti, days after four Salvadoran members of a UN-backed force went missing in a gang ambush, is the first major overseas test of President Nayib Bukele's anti-gang tactics.

  3. Africanews

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    Africanews reports that Haiti's government has announced new election dates as more than 2,000 Salvadoran troops arrive to back Haitian police and soldiers against gangs, and that El Salvador is sending troops to rescue missing soldiers.

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