December 8, 2010
Categories: Elections
Tags: 2010 elections, election riots, elections
• 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 […]
December 8, 2010
Categories: Elections
Tags: 2010 elections, election riots
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 […]
December 8, 2010
Categories: Elections
Tags: 2010 elections, election riots
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 […]
December 6, 2010
Categories: Elections
Tags: 2010 elections, elections
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 […]
December 6, 2010
Categories: United States
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI — A leaked memo by a U.S. ambassador to Haiti said President Rene Preval’s primary concern ahead of last weekend’s election for his successor was to ensure the winner would not force him into exile. The June 2009 memo sent under the name of then U.S. Ambassador Janet Sanderson was released Wednesday by […]