Haiti's ruling transitional council has fired Prime Minister Garry Conille, six months after the doctor and former UNICEF Latin America head was appointed to lead the troubled nation.

A council tasked with restoring order to the nation said it would replace Prime Minister Garry Conille with businessman Alix Didier Fils-Aimé.

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.

It marks even more turmoil in an already rocky democratic transition process for Haiti, which hasn't held democratic elections in years in a large part due to the soaring levels of gang violence.

Haiti’s ruling presidential council has fired the country’s prime minister, Garry Conille, after barely six months and named businessman Didier Fils-Aimé to replace him in an act that some political leaders say is illegal.

The process of replacing the prime minister is likely to add even more turmoil to a rocky democratic transition process in the Caribbean nation.

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 Conile's replacement.

Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille has been removed from office by the ruling council less than six months after his swearing-in, with businessman Alix Didier Fils-Aime appointed as his successor. The executive order,

A transitionary council created to reestablish democratic order in Haiti signed a decree Sunday firing interim Prime Minister Garry Conille and replacing him with Alix Didier Fils-Aimé, a businessman who was previously considered for the job.

Haiti's transitional presidential council will appoint a new prime minister, replacing Garry Conille who was named prime minister of the Caribbean nation in May, according to a draft resolution seen by Reuters which is expected to be published Monday in the official gazette.