Category Archives: Haitian News

Thousands of protesters rampaged through the streets of Haiti’s capital on Wednesday to contest election results, and they torched the headquarters of the ruling government coalition they accused of rigging the results, witnesses said.

Haiti is bracing for tense days ahead as the nation heads into a run-off presidential vote in January, following on international concerns over the results of the Nov. 28 poll.

Thousands of protesters rampaged through Haiti’s capital and other cities on Wednesday, hurling stones and wrecking property in a wave of unrest against election results they say were rigged by the ruling government coalition.

Angry protests erupted in Haiti as thousands demonstrated Wednesday after the handpicked protege of President Rene Preval narrowly won a place in the runoff in disputed presidential polls.

Haiti’s cholera outbreak has claimed 2,120 lives and infected 93,222 people, the health ministry said Tuesday.

(12-07) 08:45 PST PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Officials sorted through fraudulent ballots and scrambled for compromises to head off the threat of social unrest as Haiti prepared for the expected release Tuesday of…

A tense Haiti is awaiting the results of pivotal elections that will see a new leader tasked with rebuilding a nation shattered by a January earthquake and gripped by raging cholera.

Haiti’s cholera outbreak is a depressing reminder that the first victim of an epidemic is often the truth, says Debora MacKenzie

A tense Haiti Monday awaited the results of pivotal elections that will see a new leader tasked with rebuilding a nation shattered by a January earthquake and gripped by raging cholera.

The cholera outbreak ravaging Haiti began at a camp for UN peacekeepers from Nepal, according to an expert report submitted to the French foreign ministry, a source close to the matter told AFP on Tuesday.