Haiti: day of mobilization in Haiti to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry k
One dead and several injured in the town of Les Cayes, buildings looted, the majority of towns in the country blocked and all school and commercial activities paralyzed, such is the outcome of the first day of mobilization in Haiti as February 7 approaches. 2024 to demand the resignation of the Prime Minister. The demonstrations will continue until Wednesday.
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Demonstration against Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday February 5, 2024. AP - Odelyn Joseph
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With our correspondent in Port-au-Prince,
Marie André Belange
Some Port-au-Prince residents woke up Monday morning to the sound of gunfire. Barricades and burning tires were erected on several roads in the Haitian capital. Schools kept their doors closed while businesses, banks and transport operated slowly.
On the road to Delmas, a suburb of Port-au-Prince, demonstrators with machetes were noticed while in front of the official residence of the Prime Minister, Ariel Henry, the sit-in planned by the EDE party of the former Prime Minister interim, Claude Joseph could not take place due to the intervention of the police. The protesters denounce the behavior of the police and do not intend to let go.
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The whole country is controlled by gangs who are forcing people to leave their homes! Ariel is there and he does nothing,
protests a man.
When something happens in another country, Ariel is ready to tweet but here, people are dying. He does not say anything. We will stay in the streets because Ariel Henry must leave on February 7.
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Ariel Henry had himself set this date of February 7 for his departure under a
transition agreement never applied
... His opponents demand that he respect this schedule.
The situation was also very tense in certain regions of Haiti including Jérémie, Hinche and Cayes.
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