(7 Mar 2025)
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Port-au-Prince, Haiti – 07 March 2025
1. Brass band playing ahead of handover ceremony
2. Members of transitional council
3. President of the Presidential Transitional Council Fritz Alphonse Jean shaking hands with xxx
4. Various of ceremony
5. Haitian Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé alongside Jean
6. SOUNDBITE (French) Fritz Alphonse Jean, President of Haiti’s Presidential Transitional Council:
"The work must continue, the governance of security, economic recovery, and elections."
7. Cutaway of Jean speaking
8. SOUNDBITE (Haitian Creole) Fritz Alphonse Jean, President of Haiti’s Presidential Transitional Council:
"The Haitian people it been more than 20 years… I’m talking about collapse of the economic system which creates immense misery social inequality in our country."
9. Press
10. SOUNDBITE (Haitian Creole) Fritz Alphonse Jean, President of "Haiti’s Presidential Transitional Council:
There are people in politics and the private sector who have managed to put weapons in the hands of the country’s youth."
11. People applauding
STORYLINE:
The council tasked to prepare eventual presidential elections in Haiti swore in a new leader on Friday, as the country keeps struggling with persistent gang violence.
Fritz Alphonse Jean, an economist and former central bank governor, replaces Leslie Voltaire in the rotating presidency of the transitional presidential council, formed in 2024 after a gang violent siege of the capital that forced then prime minister Ariel Henry to resign.
During a ceremony in Port-au-Prince, Jean described what Haiti is currently facing as a “war” and asking people to be united to address the insecurity crisis.
The transitional presidential council works with Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé and amongst its tasks are helping to run the country and organizing general elections, which are due to be held by February 2026.
The country, in particular the capital, is constantly facing gang violence. The U.N. estimates that gangs already control 85% of Port-au-Prince.
The new leader of the transitional council asked for a minute of silence for the Hatian officers and the Kenyan police who have died facing the gangs.
Last year, more than 5,600 people were reported killed across Haiti, 1,000 more deaths than reported the previous year. Gang violence also has left more than one million people homeless in recent years, according to the U.N.
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