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New Haiti PM sworn in as airliner hit by gunfire

Businessman Alix Didier Fils-Aime was sworn in as Haiti's new Prime Minister. [Getty Images]

Businessman Alix Didier Fils-Aime was sworn in as Haiti's new Prime Minister on Monday as a gun attack on a passenger jet at the capital's airport underscored the utter breakdown in law and order in the Caribbean country.

Fils-Aime replaced outgoing premier Garry Conille, who was appointed in May but became embroiled in a power struggle with the unelected transitional council tasked with stabilising the crisis-wracked nation.

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