Haiti prime minister resigns after deadly unrest
au-Prince (AFP) - Embattled Haiti Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant resigned on Saturday following deadly violence and looting sparked by a now-abandoned plan to raise fuel prices, triggering a fraught process to form a new government. "I submitted my resignation to the president of the republic," who has "accepted my resignation," Lafontant said in the lower house of Haiti's legislature. Lafontant had faced a potential vote of no confidence had he not resigned -- something he had previously insisted he would not do. Last week, the ...
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