A transitional presidential council has been created, to find a way out of the state and security crisis in Haiti. A decree to this effect was published in the official gazette of the Caribbean state on Friday. The council is to appoint a new interim government and pave the way for the first elections in Haiti since 2016. This had been announced a month earlier following a meeting of the Caribbean Community CARICOM in Jamaica, which was also attended by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Interim Prime Minister Ariel Henry, who did not return from a trip abroad at the end of February due to …