‘Transitional council’ takes oath of office as gang violence continues to rock capital and president formally resigns
Haiti’s prime minister, Ariel Henry, has formally resigned and a new provisional government has been sworn in during a secret ceremony at the presidential palace, nearly two months after a criminal insurrection plunged the capital into chaos.
The nine-person “transitional council” was officially established on Thursday during an event at the national palace in Port-au-Prince. As its members took their oaths, Henry, who is in the US, having been locked out of Haiti by the gang uprising, announced in a letter that he was stepping down.
