Haitian Prime Minister Joseph Jouthe announced early Wednesday that he has resigned, as the country faces a spike in killings and kidnappings and prepares for an upcoming constitutional referendum and a general election later this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jouthe, who served as prime minister since March 2020, did not provide an explanation for his resignation, but President Jovenel Moise said a new prime minister had been appointed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe resignation of the government, which I accepted, will make it possible to address the glaring problem of insecurity and continue discussions with a view to reaching the consensus necessary for the political and institutional stability of our country. Minister Claude Joseph has been appointed PM,\u201d Moise tweeted in French.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jouthe had previously tried to submit his resignation, but President Jovenel Moise had rejected it at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Haiti, the poorest country in the Americas, has been plagued by poverty, insecurity, natural disaster and the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile, kidnappings for ransom have surged as armed gangs have gained growing influence, with the Caribbean country facing an ongoing political crisis<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Haitian Prime Minister Joseph Jouthe announced early Wednesday that he has resigned, as the country faces a spike in killings and kidnappings and prepares for an upcoming constitutional referendum and a general election later this year. Jouthe, who served as prime minister since March 2020, did not provide an explanation for his resignation, but President […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/radiohorizon2000tci.com\/Agenor\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/AFP_8VC232jpg.jpg",1140,788,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/radiohorizon2000tci.com\/Agenor\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/AFP_8VC232jpg-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/radiohorizon2000tci.com\/Agenor\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/AFP_8VC232jpg-300x207.jpg",300,207,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/radiohorizon2000tci.com\/Agenor\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/AFP_8VC232jpg-768x531.jpg",768,531,true],"large":["https:\/\/radiohorizon2000tci.com\/Agenor\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/AFP_8VC232jpg-1024x708.jpg",800,553,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/radiohorizon2000tci.com\/Agenor\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/AFP_8VC232jpg.jpg",1140,788,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/radiohorizon2000tci.com\/Agenor\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/AFP_8VC232jpg.jpg",1140,788,false],"audioigniter_cover":["https:\/\/radiohorizon2000tci.com\/Agenor\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/AFP_8VC232jpg.jpg",560,387,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"sakpasayman","author_link":"https:\/\/radiohorizon2000tci.com\/Agenor\/index.php\/author\/sakpasayman\/"},"category_info":"Uncategorized<\/a>","tag_info":"Uncategorized","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiohorizon2000tci.com\/Agenor\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiohorizon2000tci.com\/Agenor\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiohorizon2000tci.com\/Agenor\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiohorizon2000tci.com\/Agenor\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiohorizon2000tci.com\/Agenor\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiohorizon2000tci.com\/Agenor\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8,"href":"https:\/\/radiohorizon2000tci.com\/Agenor\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/8"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiohorizon2000tci.com\/Agenor\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiohorizon2000tci.com\/Agenor\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiohorizon2000tci.com\/Agenor\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiohorizon2000tci.com\/Agenor\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}