CNN —The Senate on Thursday confirmed career foreign service member Dennis Hankins to be US ambassador to Haiti, where widespread violence has brought social order to the brink of collapse.
The unrest has forced tens of thousands of people to flee their homes and prompted United States, Germany and European Union embassies in Haiti to evacuate personnel.
Hankins’ confirmation comes after Haiti’s Prime Minister Ariel Henry announced on Monday that he would resign following weeks of chaos.
The former ambassador to Mali and to Guinea has worked for the State Department for nearly four decades.
He served in Haiti earlier in his foreign service career.
Persons:
Dennis Hankins, Hankins, Ariel Henry, Joe Biden, Michele Sison, CNN’s Colin McCullough, Caitlin Stephen Hu, Helen Regan
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CNN, European Union, US Marine, Haitian, Southern Command, Haiti’s, State Department
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Haiti, Caribbean, Port, United States, Germany, Mali, Guinea