Life in the settlement at Petionville, Port-Au-Prince, 10 months after thousands were made homeless by a devastating earthquake. A man attempts to repair electricity cables in the Cité Maxo settlement Photograph: Carlos Cazalis Children play at the camp in Petionville, Port-Au-Prince Photograph: Carlos Cazalis Children by an improvised water canal in the settlement Photograph: Carlos …
• Provisional date of 16 January set for decisive contest • Further violence feared amid fraud allegations Supporters of Michel Martelly at a campaign rally in Cap Haitian last month. Photograph: Emilio Morenatti/AP Haiti was today preparing for the results of troubled elections that have generated fraud charges, protests and sporadic violence, and which and …
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US embassy in Port-au-Prince questions whether Haiti election results are consistent with ‘the will of the Haitian people’ Haiti’s international airport was shut and the offices of its ruling coalition government were set alight amid violent clashes after electoral authorities announced that President René Préval’s hand-picked successor would stand in a runoff election. An announcement …
Riots break out in several cities after announcement that former first lady Mirlande Manigat will face ruling party candidate Jude Celestin in a run-off Armed officers police protests in Port-au-Prince, Haiti following the news that Jude Celestin pipped Michel Martelly, who was expected to make it into the second round Photograph: Andres Martinez Casares/EPA Police …
Haitian presidential candidates Mirlande Manigat, a 70-year-old grandmother, and Michel Martelly, a 49-year old pop star, are expected to face each other in a runoff vote to be held next month. By: Kenneth Kidd Feature Writer, Published on Mon Dec 06 2010 PORT-AU-PRINCE—When Mirlande Manigat arrived at Collège Frère Ladauceur on Nov. 28 to cast …
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