The United States on Tuesday, March 11, banned flights to Haiti’s capitol Port-au-Prince. According to the US administration under the leadership of President Donald Trump, the move followed the worsening gang violence situation in Haiti.

The United States has extended its ban on flights to Haiti's capital until Sept. 8 because of escalating gang violence.

A U.S. educated economist and former head of Haiti’s Central Bank assumed the presidency of the country’s embattled transition council on Friday, pointing fingers at the economic elite and blaming “the cannibal” of chaos Haitians are living in on the country’s collapsing economic system.

The Federal Aviation Administration’s announcement extends a ban on U.S. flights to Port-au-Prince that began in November after gangs opened fire on three commercial planes.