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Haiti prime minister to resign as violence rocks country

Ariel Henry will step down once a transitional council has been created

Haiti’s Prime Minister Ariel Henry will resign once a transitional council has been created to run the Caribbean country, amid rising violence and pressure to step down from street gangs.

“There is no sacrifice too great for our country, for Haiti,” Henry said in a video statement released in the early hours of Tuesday morning. “I will resign following the implementation of a transitional council.”

Henry became prime minister and the de facto leader of the country following the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse in 2021. Though unelected, he had the support of the US for much of his 32 months in office, a tumultuous period during which violent gangs expanded their control over the nation’s capital Port-au-Prince.

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