Haiti Prime Minister Ariel Henry resigns, transitional council takes power
Al Jazeera
Haiti enters a new phase aimed at stemming its spiralling political and security crisis, but the future is uncertain.
Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry has resigned, paving the way for a transitional council to lead the embattled country.
In a letter posted to social media on Thursday, Henry said his administration had “served the nation in difficult times”. The letter was dated Wednesday.
The transitional council was officially installed on Thursday. The outgoing cabinet said that, pending the formation of a new government, Economy Minister Michel Patrick Boisvert has been appointed as interim prime minister.
An alliance of the country’s powerful gangs began a coordinated attack on the capital city of Port-au-Prince at the end of February. That coincided with Henry’s visit to Kenya in support of a United Nations-backed security force that the East African country had agreed to deploy to Haiti.
