JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the Haitian leader ousted two years ago in a bloody coup, said Tuesday he wants to return home from his exile in South Africa following his former ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - It looked just like a revved-up final election campaign rally, with crowds of fanatical supporters mobbing their candidate, chanting his praises and waving his portrait and ...

PORT AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Three weeks after the Haitian government gave a diplomatic passport to Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the country’s exiled former president, his planned return appears to have stalled ...

Jean-Bertrand Aristide knows how to make an entrance. The petit pretre (or “Little Priest”) emerged from seminary to become the focal point of the slum uprisings against the Duvalier dynasty and the ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Declaring the "great day has arrived," Haiti's Jean-Bertrand Aristide arrived at a South African airport Thursday, on his way home after seven years in exile despite President ...

Education: Grand Seminaire Notre Dame, Port-au-Prince, Haiti; Universite d’Etat d’Haiti, B.A.; University of Montreal, Canada, M.A.; University of South Africa ...

People in Haiti awoke this morning to learn that President Jean Bertrand Aristide had left the country for the Central African Republic, and that an interim government led by former Chief Justice ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Haiti has issued a diplomatic passport to former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, clearing the way for the return from exile of the ousted ex-leader, officials said ...

He is no stranger to struggle. Jean-Bertrand Aristide was born into poverty, survived several attempts on his life as a priest espousing revolt and was ousted in a coup within months of becoming Haiti ...

President Jean-Bertrand Aristide agreed Saturday to a U.S.-backed peace plan calling for shared power with political opponents, a new prime minister and legislative elections. But Aristide, who gets ...

GONAIVES, Haiti -- Families walked to church Sunday as calm settled on the streets of this Haitian port city, two days after gunmen drove a tractor through a prison wall and unleashed 159 inmates, ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide made a triumphant homecoming to Haiti on Friday after seven years of exile, returning despite U.S. objections two days before a ...