Information About Haiti

Haitian-American Wyclef Jean’s failed bid to become the next president of Haiti helped bring international attention to the country’s electoral process.

While officials expect turnout to be low, Haitians, on the streets, say they are eager to cast their ballots. But many don’t know where to go.

Haitian voters mulled a stark choice Saturday as they prepared to pick a new leader to rebuild a nation crippled by mismanagement, natural disaster, economic stagnation, and now cholera.

Within a year that saw a massive earthquake, a spreading cholera epidemic and recurring signs of government instability, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere is gearing up for its latest battle: presidential elections.

Haiti needs at least 1,000 more nurses and supplies of all basic equipment as it battles a cholera epidemic, the UN’s top humanitarian figure says.

Protests and campaign rallies clogged parts of Haiti’s capital on Thursday as the earthquake-battered Caribbean country headed for turbulent elections set for Sunday amid a rampant cholera epidemic.

Armed Haitian police kept apart boisterous supporters of rival presidential candidates in Port-au-Prince on Thursday as the earthquake-hit Caribbean country heads for turbulent elections this weekend in the grip of a cholera epidemic.

Haiti needs a surge of foreign nurses and doctors to stem deaths from a raging cholera epidemic that an international aid operation is struggling to control, the United Nations’ top humanitarian official said.

Battered, beleaguered Haiti holds presidential elections Sunday, nearly a year after its capital was devastated by an earthquake and amid a fast-spreading cholera epidemic. But many Haitians have little interest in this key election and little hope that any of the candidates can improve their lives.

Clashes between political factions left two dead in Haiti as growing violence and a raging cholera epidemic raised fears Wednesday of wider unrest ahead of key post-quake elections.