Tensions rise in Haiti as leadership remains in balance

Residents braced for another tense night in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince on Friday, as attacks continued across parts of the city in the aftermath of the resignation of Prime Minister Henry and in the absence of a clear plan to replace him.
“Ariel Henry resigned but we are still in political distress,” said resident Claude Atilus. “We must take our destiny into our own hands. I want the political players to rise to the task and commit themselves to organizing the country.”
A man walked through the city’s Champ de Mars square carrying a white coffin over his head, while further out in the city’s sprawling Delmas neighborhood, flaming tires and roadblocks lined the streets.
The United Nations’ children’s fund has warned of record hunger and life-threatening malnutrition concentrated in the capital’s poorest, most dangerous and busiest neighborhoods, with one in four children nationwide suffering chronic malnutrition, or stunting.