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Haiti's Presidential Inauguration on Saturday

   VOA News  May 14, 2011
   Haiti's President-elect Michel Martelly speaks at the State Department
   in Washington, April 20, 2011

Photo: AP

   Haiti's President-elect Michel Martelly speaks at the State Department
   in Washington, April 20, 2011

   Musician Michel Martelly will be sworn in as Haiti's new president on
   Saturday.
   The ceremony takes place in front of the earthquake damaged National
   Palace, in the capital, Port-Au-Prince.
   Thousand of people displaced by last year's January earthquake will
   join dignitaries, including former U.S. President Bill Clinton, who is
   leading the United States delegation, in witnessing Martelly's swearing
   in.
   Martelly faces the task of rebuilding Haiti's infrastructure. He must
   work with a legislature controlled by the opposition party of outgoing
   president Rene Preval.
   International donors have withheld billions of dollars in aid to Haiti
   until the new government can address the country's deep poverty,
   earthquake-shattered infrastructure and a cholera outbreak.
   Haiti has struggled to rebuild following the earthquake that left more
   than 200,000 people dead and 1 million others homeless.
   Hundreds of thousands of people still live in tent camps.

   Some information for this report was provided by AP.

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