Haiti's interim leader to step down amid power struggle after assassination of president

Port-au-Prince — Haiti's interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph, who has run the country following the assassination of president Jovenel Moise, will step down and a new government will be formed with Ariel Henry as prime minister, an official said Monday. Elections Minister Mathias Pierre confirmed the news, which was first reported by The Washington Post, to The Associated Press on Monday.

The new government will not have a president, and will be tasked with organizing fresh elections "as soon as possible," said the government official, who is close to the prime minister's office. Moise had tapped Henry to replace Joseph as prime minister in the days before the president was shot dead in his home in Port-au-Prince in the early hours of July 7.