Michel Martelly will meet Thursday with the Haitian-American community in Tampa. Another Haitian musician, Pras Michel of the Fugees, is expected to join him to launch a project supporting earthquake survivors in the Tampa Bay area.

Martelly is a popular singer better known as “Sweet Micky.” He faces former first lady Mirlande Manigat in Haiti’s March 20 runoff vote.

Both were among 19 presidential candidates in Haiti’s flawed initial election in November. That vote was followed by protests, riots and outrage until earlier this month when an international team of experts from the Organization of American States found problems with the vote count and declared Martelly and Manigat the top two finishers.

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dix mois apres le tremblement de terre qui a tué plus de 200 000 haitiens

la situation est toujours aussi difficile en haiti malgre la mobilisation du gouvernement

et l’aide internationale pour la reconstruction du pays, l’epidemie de cholera a empiré

la situation d Haiti.

Le Ministere de la sante Publique et de la population annoncait 194 095 cas de

cholera et 3819 cas de deces.

C’est quoi le Cholera

est une maladie infectieuse , diarrhetique a caractere epidemique provoqué par une

bacterie, le vibrio cholerae, tranmise par voie digestive.

faudrait pour cela une manque d higiene. le monde connait actuellemnet sa septieme

pandemie de cholera dont l origine est d Indonésie en 1961 qui s est ensuite propagée

dans les autres pays.

Le Cholera en Republique Dominicaine

le premier cas de cholera a ete dectecté un mardi sur un ouvrier de batiment d origine

haitienne agé de 32 ans, il a ete hospitalisé et mis a l isolement dans une chambre bien equipée.

grace a ces soins le patient a retabli. plus de 152 cas de cholera ont ete diagnostiqués en Republique

Dominicaine. le gouvernement dominicain a mis de controles sanitaires drastiques, comme le lavage de

la main avec du clorox avant de tranverser sa frotiere et a limité son commerce avec Haiti.

Contrairement a Haiti ou l epidemie Cholera a tué 4000 personnes, la Republique Dominicaien a enregistré

le premie mort a Higuey le 23 janvier 2011, le decedé haitien repon au nom de Renauld Francois agé de 53 ans.

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Aristide has been living in South Africa since fleeing Haiti during a violent uprising in 2004.

“Since my forced arrival in the Mother Continent six and a half years ago, the people of Haiti have never stopped calling for my return to Haiti,” he said in a statement, provided by South Africa’s foreign ministry Thursday.

“Despite the enormous challenges that they face in the aftermath of the deadly January 12, 2010, earthquake, their determination to make the return happen has increased.”

Aristide said he wants to go back home to serve Haitians “as a simple citizen in the field of education.”

“The return is indispensable, too, for medical reasons,” he added.

He said that he has had six eye surgeries in the six years he has lived in South Africa.

“The surgeons are excellent and very well skilled, but the unbearable pain experienced in the winter must be avoided in order to reduce any risk of further complications and blindness,” he said.

Aristide, a former priest, is a controversial figure in Haiti. His administration was accused of widespread corruption. But his left-wing views appealed to the poorest of the poor, many of whom have called for his return in recent years.

He spoke after the poor nation was thrown into turmoil by the unexpected return of former dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier this week.

Though Duvalier faces charges of financial wrongdoing and possibly human rights abuses, the former dictator has no plans to leave his homeland, one of his lawyers said Wednesday.

Attorney Reynold Georges told CNN that Duvalier would fight any charges against him and could very well get back into politics.

“You can bet your life on it,” Georges said, referring to Duvalier’s intention to remain in Haiti, adding that Duvalier is looking into renovating one of his old homes.

Duvalier made a brief appearance Wednesday, stepping out onto a balcony of the Karibe Hotel and waving to dozens of supporters. “I will see you later,” he said.

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PORT-AU-PRINCE — Former dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier made a surprise return to Haiti on Sunday in the midst of a political vacuum left by disputed presidential elections.

Returning to his homeland after 25 years in the political wilderness, most of them spent in exile in France, Duvalier did not explain the reason for his return, telling reporters at the airport, simply: “I’ve come to help.”

The sudden re-emergence of Duvalier, 59, who an AFP reporter saw at immigration in a blue suit and tie, only added to the intrigue in earthquake-ravaged Haiti, as efforts to find a successor to President Rene Preval have fallen into disarray.

Duvalier’s partner Veronique Roy described to AFP how the former dictator bent to his knees and kissed the ground as he set foot on home soil for the first time since his violent ouster in 1986.

“Haiti my country, the country of Dessalines,” she quoted him as declaring, in reference to independence hero Jean-Jacques Dessalines who drove the French out and made himself emperor.

Roy suggested the couple’s return had been prompted by the devastating earthquake almost exactly a year ago that killed nearly a quarter of a million Haitians.

“That was the trigger,” she told AFP. “It’s so emotional. We were not expecting this welcome.”

A delegation of former officials who had served as cabinet ministers under Duvalier awaited his arrival at the airport and a few hundred supporters were gathered outside.

Duvalier was ousted by a popular revolt after his family and supporters were accused of plundering tens of millions of dollars of state funds during his 15-year reign.
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However, about US$470,000 or TT$3 million more is still required to bring and support 70 Haitian students to the St Augustine campus of the University of the West Indies.

Of the total sum of US$1.3 million for the project (students’ airfares, living expenses and study materials) the UWI St Augustine Campus has already decided to contribute over US$730,000 to the venture, UWI St Augustine Campus Principal Professor Clement Sankat said at the handing over of the donations which took place at the Office of the Central Bank in Port of Spain.

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Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa announced the donation during an official visit to Haiti, and said Unasur would also establish a political and technical secretariat in the country to assist with reconstruction plans.

Ecuador's President Rafael Correa (L) and Haiti's President Rene Preval

Correa, who currently holds Unasur’s rotating presidency, arrived in Port-au-Prince on Monday night and travelled by helicopter to the country’s north to survey projects being financed by the group and implemented by troops from the organization’s member states.

“We do not want to exercise humanitarian imperialism in Haiti,” he said.

“We want to begin a new form of South-South cooperation, respecting the sovereignty of the Haitian people, and with the belief that the real development actors in Haiti are the Haitian people.”

The Haitians were aboard a 25-foot vessel that was spotted 22 miles off the coast of Delray Beach. A Coast Guard crew stopped the boat, which carried the five Haitian migrants as well as two Jamaican migrants and one smuggling suspect, officials said.

The Haitians were repatriated to Cap Haitien, Haiti, on Tuesday August 31, 2010. Officials said the two Jamaicans and the smuggling suspect were transferred to the custody of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.