Transitional council in Haiti selects new PM for country under siege by gangs

Garry Conille (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery, File)

Garry Conille has been named Haiti’s new prime minister, nearly a month after a coalition within a fractured transitional council had chosen someone else for the position.

The long-awaited move comes as gangs continue to terrorise the capital of Port-au-Prince, opening fire in once peaceful neighbourhoods and using heavy machinery to demolish several police stations and prisons.