Haiti’s leader steps down, gangs surge

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Ariel Henry, Haiti’s besieged prime minister, has agreed to resign once a transitional presidential council is installed. Widlore Mérancourt [MARE-an-cour], a Haitian reporter and editor-in-chief of Ayibo Post tells The World’s Carolyn Beeler violence has made Port-au-Prince increasingly unsafe.  

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