{"id":28925,"date":"2024-04-25T16:00:58","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T16:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/haiti-prime-minister-resigns-as-new-govt-set-to-take-over-power\/"},"modified":"2024-04-25T16:00:58","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T16:00:58","slug":"haiti-prime-minister-resigns-as-new-govt-set-to-take-over-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/haiti-prime-minister-resigns-as-new-govt-set-to-take-over-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Haiti Prime Minister resigns as new govt set to take over power"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The prime minister of Haiti, Ariel Henry, resigned his position on Thursday, paving the way for a new government to be formed in the Caribbean country.<br \/>\nAccording to CBS News, Henry presented his resignation in a letter dated April 24 and signed in Los Angeles by his office.<br \/>\nThe development occurred the same day a council tasked with choosing a new prime minister and cabinet for Haiti was due to be sworn in.<br \/>\nThe interim council was set to be installed more than a month after Caribbean leaders announced its creation, following an emergency meeting to tackle Haiti\u2019s spiralling and parallel political and crime crises.<br \/>\nThe nine-member council, of which seven have voting powers, is also expected to help set the agenda of a new cabinet. It will also appoint a provisional electoral commission, a requirement before elections can take place, and establish a national security council.<\/p>\n<p>Haiti has been facing security challenges since February.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST recalls that gangs launched coordinated attacks in the capital, Port-au-Prince and surrounding areas.<br \/>\nThe assailants burned police stations and hospitals opened fire on the main international airport that has remained closed since early March, and stormed Haiti\u2019s two biggest prisons, releasing more than 4,000 inmates.<\/p>\n<p>Haiti Prime Minister resigns as new govt set to take over power<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prime minister of Haiti, Ariel Henry, resigned his position on Thursday, paving the way for a new government to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14424,15],"tags":[14425,180],"class_list":["post-28925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-haiti","category-news","tag-haiti","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}