Haiti on Tuesday readied for a new government after its prime minister agreed to step down over
spiraling gang violence, but a planned UN-backed stability mission floundered when lead-nation
Kenya put its role on hold.

Guest: Prof Jemima Pierre, Haiti-American scholar | Zoom

Haiti awaits new government
Haiti on Tuesday readied for a new government after its prime minister agreed to step down over
spiraling gang violence, but a planned UN-backed stability mission floundered when lead-nation
Kenya put its role on hold.

Gang violence has plunged the Caribbean country into renewed chaos since last week, leaving
public services shattered, many people displaced and bodies strewn in the streets.
The capital Port-au-Prince was calm Tuesday after Prime Minister Ariel Henry -- who has been stuck
abroad since the latest unrest erupted -- announced overnight he would resign, saying "no sacrifice
is too great for our homeland."
Gangs who rule much of the city had demanded Henry's departure after they launched a series of
attacks on police stations, prisons and other infrastructure.

But Haiti has been in a cycle of violence for years, and Henry's resignation is not certain to help
ordinary people who face worsening shortages of food and medicine.
The gangs went on a coordinated offensive while Henry was in Nairobi to try to secure deployment
of the Kenya-led, multinational police mission.