Haiti’s Prime Minister Ariel Henry has resigned: Guyana president

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Announcement comes amid emergency CARICOM summit on the crisis in Haiti.

Haiti’s Prime Minister Ariel Henry has resigned, according to Mohamed Irfaan Ali, Guyana’s president and the current chair of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).

His comments came as CARICOM leaders held an emergency summit on the situation in Haiti where gang-led violence has led to increasing chaos.

The alliance of gangs, led by Jimmy “Barbecue” Cherizier, had warned of civil war if Henry, who was been prime minister since the 2021 assassination of the country’s last president, did not step down.

Cherizier’s gangs went on the rampage when Henry was out of the country, seeking to rally support for a Kenya-led foreign police intervention his government had argued was necessary to restore order.

He has since been effectively locked out of the country and landed in Puerto Rico last week after being denied entry into the Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti.

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