The prime minister of HaitiAriel Henry, has left Kenya, where last week he was on an official visit, a spokesperson for the Kenyan Presidency confirmed to EFE this Monday amid rumors about the whereabouts of the Caribbean leader.
“We can only confirm that (the prime minister) left Kenya,” declared the spokesperson without providing further details.
Last Thursday and Friday, Henry officially visited Nairobi, where he attended the signing of a bilateral agreement requested by Kenyan courts to allow the deployment of some 1,000 Kenyan police who would lead the multinational mission authorized by the UN to confront the security crisis in Haiti.
In the Kenyan capital, the Haitian president also attended the VI United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-6) and gave a conference on the campus of the United States International University (USIU).
The prime minister remains out of his country this Monday amid escalating tension, after attending the Caribbean Community (Caricom) summit a week ago in Guyana and then traveling to Kenya.
Nothing is known about Henry’s whereabouts, although some versions suggest that he left Kenya on Saturday.
His return to Haiti is unknown: while some rumors claim that his arrival may be imminent, the silence is total when EFE asks those around him about his return to the country.
In Henry’s absence, Patrick Michel Boivert acts as interim Prime Minister of Haiti, whose signature appeared this Sunday when reporting the imposition in the department of the West, where Port-au-Prince is located, of the state of emergency and the curfew for 72 hours that can be extended. .
This decision was made, according to the Government, by the “security degradation” and last Saturday’s attacks on two prisons at the hands of armed gangs, La Capitale and Croix des Bouquets, the largest in the country, from which some 3,600 inmates escaped.
At the time, in Guyana, as reported by the Prime Minister of the Bahamas, Phillip Davis, Ariel Henry would have committed to holding elections before August 31, 2025.
After the announcement of the elections, attacks by powerful armed gangs increased last Thursday in the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince, who claim they will continue their actions until Henry leaves power.
Also the Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, Gaston Browne, indicated that Henry was willing to share power with the opposition to achieve a solution to the crisis.
Source: Gestion
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