Haiti’s transitional presidential council selects Gary Conille as prime minister. Learn about the process and the controversy surrounding it.

Learn about Haiti’s transitional presidential council, plans for a new government, and the latest developments in the political landscape.

Haiti’s transitional presidential council is expected to be formally established following weeks of internal discussions and delays.

Haiti’s de facto prime minister Ariel Henry announced he would resign to make way for a transitional presidential council after armed groups came together to demand his ouster.

The US and other countries continue to push for an intervention force to Haiti, even as some CARICOM members call for Haiti’s de facto PM to step aside.

Haiti’s de facto prime minister Ariel Henry is vowing to stay in office despite mass protests the day that a democratic transition should have occurred. Henry’s government has not scheduled new elections.

Several members of the US Congress have warned that “another armed foreign intervention in Haiti will not result in the necessary Haitian-led transition to a democratic government.”

On November 30, former coup leader Guy Philippe was deported to Haiti. Philippe was released from prison in the US in September after serving six-plus years on charges related to drug trafficking and money laundering.

A simmering conflict between the High Council for the Transition (HCT) and de facto prime minister Ariel Henry has burst into the open

On October 20, the UN Security Council is scheduled to discuss the final report of the UN Expert Panel, convened last year to advise the council on its sanctions regime in Haiti.