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STORY: In the city's Champ de Mars square a man walked through carrying a white coffin over his head, while further out in the city's sprawling Delmas neighborhood, flaming tires and roadblocks lined the streets.

A local resident Claude Atilus complains despite Prime Minister Ariel Henry saying he would step down as prime minister, Haitians still face political distress.

Heavily armed gangs have taken over much of the capital in Haiti, and rights groups have reported widespread killings, kidnappings and sexual violence.

Speaking to Reuters, Jean Eddy Saint Paul, founding director of Haitian Studies Institute at Brooklyn College of City University of New York, blames "the complicity and the involvement of the United States of America, Canada, of France" for the proliferation of arms in Haiti.

Henry, the country's unelected prime minister, said he would step down on Monday as he faced international pressure while stranded in Puerto Rico as an escalation of fighting in the capital prevented him from returning home.

His resignation is pending the appointment of an interim replacement chosen by a transition council, but the members of the transition council have yet to be decided any some political groups tapped for representation have rejected the plan or been unable to unite their internal factions.