New Haiti government sworn in during secret ceremony

‘Transitional council’ takes oath of office as gang violence continues to rock capital and president formally resigns

Haiti’s prime minister, Ariel Henry, has formally resigned and a new provisional government has been sworn in during a secret ceremony at the presidential palace, nearly two months after a criminal insurrection plunged the capital into chaos.

The nine-person “transitional council” was officially established on Thursday during an event at the national palace in Port-au-Prince. As its members took their oaths, Henry, who is in the US, having been locked out of Haiti by the gang uprising, announced in a letter that he was stepping down.