Now that the world knows the former singer with the multi-platinum group, the Fugees, turned solo star is running for president of Haiti.
International donors pledged nearly $10-billion on Wednesday to help shell-shocked Haiti recover from January’s devastating earthquake.
Jean-Bertrand Aristide was forced out of Haiti, but the suffering wrought by last month’s earthquake has intensified calls for his return.
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/ 22 February 2010
The death toll from Haiti’s January 12 earthquake could reach 300Â 000, Haitian President Rene Preval said.
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/ 19 February 2010
Haitians who survived last month’s devastating earthquake that killed more than 200 000 now face a fear: rain.
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/ 18 February 2010
Haiti received special attention at the International Fund for Agricultural Development governing council meeting in Rome on Wednesday.
France’s national anthem blared across the tarmac on as Nicolas Sarkozy made the first visit ever by a French president to Haiti.
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/ 14 February 2010
For the hundreds of thousands still Âliving on the streets, fears are now turning to what the next few months of downpours will bring.
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/ 12 February 2010
Haiti on Friday marks the one-month anniversary of the devastating quake that killed more than 210Â 000 people.
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/ 11 February 2010
Haiti has raised the death toll from January’s quake to more than 217 000, while the focus turned to providing shelter for the homeless.
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/ 7 February 2010
The US military has vowed to help Haiti as long as needed while the Caribbean nation struggles to feed up to a million people.
The death toll from Haiti’s catastrophic earthquake last month has reached 212Â 000, the prime minister said on Thursday.
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/ 4 February 2010
The death toll in the Haiti quake has swelled to 200 000, Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive said on Wednesday.
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/ 1 February 2010
Hotel cashier Wismond Exantus dreamed, among other things, that he was in the middle of the ocean and riding a horse.
The earthquake has highlighted the competitive ethos of large NGOs, writes Matthew Weaver.
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/ 31 January 2010
With a million Haitians homeless and disease spreading, the earthquake-shattered island is threatened by other natural forces.
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/ 30 January 2010
Haiti’s desperate earthquake survivors faced a new deadly threat on Friday as the UN reported a rise in cases of diarrhea, measles and tetanus.
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/ 29 January 2010
Haiti’s quake survivors faced rising insecurity on Friday with thousands of criminals on the loose and reports of rape and violence.
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/ 29 January 2010
Ushahidi, which means "testimony" in Swahili, is a website that was developed to map reports of violence in Kenya. Now, it’s been deployed in Haiti.
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/ 28 January 2010
Rescuers on Wednesday dragged a Haitian girl alive from the rubble 15 days after a devastating quake, in a rare moment of joy for the country.
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/ 27 January 2010
Stunned rescuers in Haiti pulled out a man still alive after an amazing 12 days under the rubble.
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/ 27 January 2010
Actor flies his own Boeing 707 to Port-au-Prince laden with supplies to bolster US-based group’s disaster relief effort.
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/ 25 January 2010
Earthmovers cleared rotting corpses from Haiti’s ruined capital as donors met on Monday to draw up a recovery plan.
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/ 25 January 2010
Haiti’s government raised the confirmed earthquake death toll to 150Â 000 Âon Monday, and said the figure could double.
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/ 24 January 2010
As the tremors and the NGOs recede, Haitians continue the fight against colonialism that their ancestors began 220 years ago.
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/ 24 January 2010
Eleven days after the earthquake devastated Haiti, and with the death toll rising to 120Â 000, rescue teams pull a man alive from the rubble.
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/ 23 January 2010
Rescuers pulled two barely alive survivors from the rubble of Port-au-Prince on Friday as hungry and homeless Haitians clamoured for food.
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/ 22 January 2010
A pair of brief but relatively strong aftershocks rocked the devastated Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince on Friday.
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/ 22 January 2010
UN-led teams in Haiti have switched their focus away from searching for people trapped in collapsed buildings to providing aid to desperate survivors.
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/ 22 January 2010
In overwhelmed hospitals of Port-au-Prince, number of patients having limbs removed indicates a future national crisis.
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/ 21 January 2010
Search teams in Haiti on Thursday refused to abandon hope of finding more survivors of last week’s massive earthquake.
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/ 20 January 2010
A strong aftershock struck Haiti on Wednesday, creating panic among people camping out in the capital’s streets after last week’s earthquake.