Haitian high-ranking official responds to U.S. sanctions

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Haitian high-ranking official responds to U.S. sanctions  Fritz Alphonse Jean, a member of Haiti's transitional presidential council, on Tuesday denied supporting gangs after the U.S. imposed visa restrictions on him.  READ MORE : http://www.africanews.com/2025/11/26/haitian-high-ranking-official-responds-to-us-sanctions  Subscribe on our Dailymotion channel and receive all the latest news from the continent.    Africanews is available in English and French.  Website : www.africanews.com  Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/africanews.channel/  Twitter : https://twitter.com/africanews

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00:00Fritz Alphonse Jean, a member of Haiti Transitional Presidential Council, has denied supporting

00:06gangs on Tuesday after the U.S. imposed visa restrictions on him.

00:11The U.S. did not name the person it sanctioned in Monday's announcement, but Jean confirmed

00:16it was him as he rejected the accusations of supporting gangs.

00:21For some months now, several members of the council have observed the failure of Prime

00:26Minister Didier Fizeme's government on the issues of security, governance and elections.

00:34The U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, Christopher Landau, last week warned on social media that

00:38there were calls for open war against the central government in Haiti.

00:44Threats are coming from the American Embassy, which is coming from the Canadian Embassy,

00:51where they said if we don't withdraw our support for replacing the Prime Minister, they will

00:55cut off our visas and the visas of our families.

01:05Haiti is due to hold elections by February 7, when the nine-member Transitional Presidential

01:11Council is supposed to step down.

01:13Haiti's Prime Minister in the Transitional Presidential Council have been under pressure to hold elections

01:18before the council's mandate expires, but gang violence has made the February deadline impossible

01:24to meet, according to analysts.

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