As killings and hunger soar in Haiti, a political power struggle has cost the prime minister his job, another setback for a country plagued by gang violence.

Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille has been fired by the country's ruling council less than six months after he took office. An executive order, signed by eight of the council's nine members, named businessman and former Haiti Senate candidate Alix Didier Fils-Aime as Conille's replacement.

G ARRY CONILLE lasted 166 days as Haiti’s prime minister. It was a miserable term. In June, one month after he took office, a UN-authorised security force of some 400 Kenyan pol