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...The council — which includes Fritz Alphonse Jean, a former central bank governor, former senate president Edgard Leblanc, and insurance businessman Laurent Saint-Cyr — will also wield limited presidential...
...Thursday’s apparent breakthrough on naming the transitional council came after Jean-Charles Moïse, a former senator and leader of the Pitit Desalin party, reversed an earlier decision not to take part and...
...Jean-Bertrand Aristide was arguably the first freely-elected president of Haiti in 1991....
...It wants to have candidates like Moïse Katumbi.” Rwanda’s government dismisses the claims as “provocations”....
...“We were stuck inside for nine days while gangs fought outside,” said Jean-Pierre Delva, a resident of Cité Soleil, one of Port-au-Prince’s most notorious slums....
...Over one recent weekend in Port-au-Prince, Éric Jean Baptiste, a prominent politician, and his bodyguard were murdered by gangsters while driving through the capital in an armoured car....
...And because of this, our US banking correspondent Imani Moise says Citigroup is having an even harder time getting rid of the business....
...Although murders are common in the Caribbean nation and coups punctuate Haiti’s history, no president has been assassinated in office since a mob dismembered Jean Vilbrun Guillaume Sam in 1915....
...As ever, reach out to Imani (imani.moise@ft.com) or me (sid.v@ft.com) with your thoughts....
...“There’s no way you can penetrate the house of the president without internal support,” former prime minister Jean-Max Bellerive told the Financial Times....
...Last week the country’s president Jovenel Moïse was assassinated. It is still unclear who was behind the killing....
...A “gorgeous cadenced” hexagonal room was designed solely to house seven pastorals by Jean-Baptiste Huet....
...Haiti’s president assassinated Haiti has been thrust into turmoil after its president, Jovenel Moïse, was assassinated in the early hours of Wednesday in his private home on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince...
...“European asset managers should not have a ‘US complex’,” Jean Pierre Mustier, the former head of Italy’s UniCredit, said recently at an FT conference....
...In the bloody aftermath of independence in the Belgian Congo in 1960-61, he was kidnapped by drug-crazed paramilitaries supporting Moise Tshombe, leader of the secessionist province of Katanga....
...“I’m the fifth president of Haiti to rule without a parliament,” he explained, listing his recent predecessors — Jean-Bertrand Aristide, René Préval, Boniface Alexandre and Michel Martelly....
...Former vice-president Jean Pierre Bemba and ex-provincial governor Moise Katumbi, powerful kingmakers who are themselves barred from running, told the Financial Times they remained committed to defeating...
...Their favoured candidate, former provincial governor Moise Katumbi, was prevented from entering Congo this week....
...The powerful backers of Mr Fayulu — Jean-Pierre Bemba and Moise Katumbi, neither of whom were allowed to run — were now likely to call their supporters out on the streets, she said....
...Democratic Republic of Congo’s highest court has disqualified opposition leader Jean-Pierre Bemba from this year’s presidential election less than five weeks after the former vice-president and rebel leader...
...The powerful backers of Mr Fayulu — Jean-Pierre Bemba and Moise Katumbi, neither of whom were allowed to run in the election — were likely to call their supporters out on the streets, raising the prospects...
...The four opposition leaders who backed his candidacy include the powerful Congolese kingmakers Moise Katumbi and Jean-Pierre Bemba, both of whom were excluded from the vote....
...Two of the main opposition candidates, Jean-Pierre Bemba and Moise Katumbi, were barred from running by courts stacked with Kabila loyalists....
...Backed by powerful opposition leaders Jean-Pierre Bemba and Moise Katumbi — both disqualified from the race — Mr Fayulu criss-crossed the country in an energetic campaign, while Mr Bemba and Mr Katumbi corralled...
...Mr Fayulu, backed by the wealthy opposition leaders Moise Katumbi and Jean-Pierre Bemba — both excluded from the race — was one of the few opposition candidates with the financial resources to run a genuinely...
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