Haiti’s acting prime minister, Ariel Henry, was forced to flee an official government event commemorating one of Haiti’s founding fathers on Sunday after a local gang leader seized control of the ceremony, Britain’s Independent newspaper reported Tuesday.
A public prosecutor in Haiti on Tuesday sought charges against the country’s prime minister, Ariel Henry, in connection with the July assassination of late Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, prompting Henry to fire the prosecutor.
The shocking assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise by a squad of gunmen on Wednesday left two people claiming to be the interim prime minister and dueling for power: neurosurgeon Ariel Henry, former minister of the interior, and former foreign minister Claude Joseph.
