Haiti's government has taken a key step towards holding long-delayed elections with the creation of a body which will oversee the polls.The nine-member provisional electoral council - set up on Wednesday - has been tasked with organising elections by February 2026.

Haiti creates provisional electoral council as country prepares to hold elections for the first time since 2016

El gobierno de Haití creó el miércoles un consejo electoral provisional con el fin de preparar al atribulado país caribeño para sus primeras elecciones generales desde 2016.

The Caribbean nation is set to hold elections by 2026, a decade after they were last held in 2016. Under normal circumstances, elections would have been held every five years, but an already rocky political situation in Haiti was exacerbated by the power vacuum caused by the assassination of President Jovenel Moise in 2021 and the nation has gone without a president since.