July 8, 2021

The assassination of Haitian president Jovenel Moise in his residence in Port-au-Prince overnight on Wednesday has drawn widespread condemnation and sparked concern about further instability in the Caribbean nation.

In a statement on Wednesday, Interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph confirmed that Moise, 53, who had been the country's president since 2017, had been assassinated by a group of armed men in the early hours of the morning and declared a "state of siege."

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned "in the strongest terms" the assassination, while calling on all Haitians to preserve the constitutional order, remain united in the face of this abhorrent act and reject all violence.

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