Haiti’s Prime Minister Ariel Henry gives a public lecture at the United States International University (USIU) in Nairobi, Kenya, Friday March. 1, 2024. Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry said Friday elections in his country need to be held as soon as possible in order to bring stability to the troubled Caribbean nation facing gang violence that threatens to overran government. Henry is in Kenya trying to salvage the deployment of a foreign armed force to Haiti to help combat gangs.
Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry is struggling to stay in power as he tries to return home, where gang attacks have shuttered the country’s main international airport and freed more than 4,000 inmates in recent days.
As of midday Wednesday, Henry remained in Puerto Rico, where he landed the day before after he was barred from landing in neighboring Dominican Republic because officials there closed the airspace to flights to and from Haiti.
Locked out of his country for now, Henry appears to face an impasse as a growing number of officials call for his resignation or nudge him toward it. Read More
Coto, D. (2024, March 6). Haiti’s prime minister is locked out of his country and faces pressure to resign – Caribbean Life. Www.caribbeanlife.com. https://www.caribbeanlife.com/haitis-prime-minister-is-locked-out-of-his-country-and-faces-pressure-to-resign/
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