A candidate in Haiti’s presidential run-off said on Thursday she hoped popular former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide would delay his planned return.
The indictment by the International Criminal Court of six Kenyans for their roles in violence following that country’s elections was a welcome sign.
South Africa has been accused of bowing to US and Brazilian pressure.
Supporters beat drums while workers spruced up his private villa as Haitians prepared on Tuesday for the possible return of Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
The rumour spread through Lucien Tham’s crowded encampment: Ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide had returned!
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/ 9 February 2011
Former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide is hoping to return to Haiti in the coming days, ending seven years in exile, his lawyer said on Wednesday.
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/ 1 February 2011
Haiti’s government said on Monday it was ready to issue a new passport to former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
Jean-Bertrand Aristide was forced out of Haiti, but the suffering wrought by last month’s earthquake has intensified calls for his return.
Former Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, exiled in South Africa since his 2004 ouster, received a doctorate in African languages on Wednesday in a ceremony attended by President Thabo Mbeki. A university spokesperson said that Aristide had become fluent in Zulu since being appointed an honorary research fellow.
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/ 22 February 2007
Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti’s ousted former president, said in an interview published on Thursday that he will return to the Caribbean nation ”once the conditions are right”, but doesn’t plan to go back into government. In a wide-ranging interview published in the London Review of Books, Aristide said he and his family are staying in South Africa ”as guests, not as exiles”.