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Wyclef Jean not on official list of approved candidates in Haiti's presidential election: official BY Lukas I. Alpert DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Thursday, August 19th 2010, 8:07 PM Hagen for NewsHip hop icon Wyclef Jean has said publicly he plans to run for President of Haiti. Wyclef Jean's presidential hopes appear to have been killed softly. The Haitian hip-hop star's name does not appear on the list of approved candidates for the country's upcoming election, Reuters reported Thursday, quo... Read More
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haiti hip-hop star Wyclef Jean is not on the list of approved candidates who satisfy legal requirements to run in the country's Nov. 28 presidential election, an electoral official said Thursday. The presidential bid by the 40-year-old singer-songwriter and international celebrity had triggered widespread enthusiasm in his poor, earthquake-ravaged Caribbean homeland. But it had been challenged on the grounds he did no... Read More
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haiti hip-hop star Wyclef Jean is not on the list of approved candidates who satisfy legal requirements to run in the country's Nov. 28 presidential election, an electoral official said Thursday. The presidential bid by the 40-year-old singer-songwriter and international celebrity had triggered widespread enthusiasm in his poor, earthquake-ravaged Caribbean homeland. But it had been challenged on the grounds he did not... Read More
Hip-hop star's presidential bid challenged on grounds he doesn't live there PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haiti hip-hop star Wyclef Jean is not on the list of approved candidates who satisfy legal requirements to run in the country's Nov. 28 presidential election, an electoral official said Thursday. The presidential bid by the 40-year-old singer-songwriter and international celebrity had triggered widespread enthusiasm in his poor, earthquake-rava... Read More
On October 15, Tipper Gore, wife of Vice President Al Gore, set out on what should have been an ordinary visit to a U.S. funded health clinic serving the poorest section of the capital of the poorest country in the hemisphere. But the day quickly degenerated from feel-good photo-op to fiasco. Residents of Cite Soleil, a sprawling slum on the edge of Port au-Prince, Haiti, broke up the event with a barrage of stones. Although the U.S. press initially reported the incident as an anti-American prot... Read More
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