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Donors given vaunted view of Haitian security

Published: 11 March, 2009, 17:19


AFP Photo / HO US Navy / MCS1 Emmitt Hawks

As the UN gives out a message of Haitian hope and security to international donors, the ravaged island’s people prepare to vote under a shroud of police killings and kidnappings.

 
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