The transitional council appointed to oversee a restoration of order in Haiti fired the country’s interim PM on Sunday, replacing Garry Conille, a former U.N. official who took over the job in May, with businessman Alix Didier Fils-Aime. (AP)
Our Take
It was always clear that the establishment of Haiti’s transitional council back in April would not be sufficient on its own to stabilize the country’s political and security situation, which has been in crisis since the assassination of then-President Jovenel Moise more than three years ago.
But the council’s establishment, as well as its appointment of Conille as PM, did at least signal that Haiti’s political paralysis had been broken, a necessary first step toward the restoration of order. The arrival in June of an international force of police officers, most of them Kenyan, to battle criminal gangs that had taken control of broad swathes of Haiti’s capital added to this glimmer of optimism.