The Haitian transitional council, comprising a nine-member has announced Garry Conille as the new Prime Minister of the country after the resignation of a former ex-leader who resigned after a wave of violence affecting the Island.
The announcement was made on Tuesday as the Island continued to battle gang violence which has taken over the capital as they seek to seize over power.
Garry Conille is expected to take over power from acting Prime Minister Michael Patrick Boisvert who has been in charge of the country’s affairs since Ariel Henry resigned in April.
The move comes as Haiti waits desperately for the deployment of a Kenyan-led multinational force tasked with wresting back control from powerful and violent gangs that control swaths of the capital.
The UN-backed security mission which the United States is providing with logistical support, but not boots on the ground is supposed to help Haiti’s weak, outgunned police force defeat the gangs.
The Haitian Island since the assassination of former President Jovenel Moise in July 2021 has yet to conduct a federal election.