Information About Haiti

PROVO — Haiti still needs help. One local organization is looking for people to provide that help.

Hundreds of thousands of homeless survivors from Haiti’s 2010 earthquake are likely to be still living in camps at the end of this year because of slow and faltering resettlement efforts, the International Organization for Migration said on Friday.

Angelina Jolie has no plans to adopt a child from earthquake-hit Haiti, despite persistent reports in British newspapers that she is about to add another child to her brood of six, a spokesman for the actress said on Friday.

The rumor spread through Lucien Tham’s crowded encampment: Ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide had returned! So he joined scores of other Haitians rushing to the airport with his family, spending precious savings on a collective taxi to ride across town after sundown.

Haiti has issued a diplomatic passport for ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and his American attorney will soon receive it, a government official said Tuesday.

Haiti has issued a diplomatic passport to former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, clearing the way for the return from exile of the ousted ex-leader, officials said on Tuesday.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti’s first democratically elected president, who has been living in exile in South Africa for seven years, has been issued a new passport to return home, the Haitian interior minister said Wednesday.

The United States fears a possible return home to Haiti by exiled former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide before a deciding presidential election next month would be an “unfortunate distraction” and potentially divisive, the State Department said on Wednesday.

Haiti has issued a diplomatic passport for ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and his American lawyer said he picked it up Tuesday from government authorities.

A lawyer for Jean-Bertrand Aristide said that the deposed leader “wants to come home as soon as he can” after seven years of exile.