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Free and fair elections for a more democratic Haiti

By Jovenel Moise

FILE - In this file photo dated Thursday, May 21, 2020, Yves Jean-Bart, president of the Haitian Football Federation, wearing a protective face mask, arrives for a court hearing regarding allegations that he abused female athletes at the country's national training center, in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti. In a verdict announced Friday Nov. 20, 2020, the FIFA ethics committee has found Jean-Bart guilty, banned him from the sport for life and fined him dollars 1.1 million, following accusations of systematic sexual abuse of female players. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery, FILE)

FIFA bans Haitian soccer president for life for sexual abuse

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

Protesters hold hands as they march to demand answers after the kidnapping and murder of high school senior Evelyne Sincère, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020. The young woman was found in a trash heap Sunday after relatives said they were unable to pay the large ransom demanded by her captors. Human rights groups contend the incident highlights the nation’s worsening security crisis. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

Hundreds march in Haiti after outrage over student’s slaying

By EVENS SANON - Associated Press

Jonelson Princeton, 7, who survived cholera as a newborn, peers out from inside his home which was once used as an office, on a former UN base where he lives with his parents and grandmother in Mirebalais, Haiti, Monday, Oct. 19, 2020. Ten years after a cholera epidemic swept through Haiti and killed thousands, families of victims still struggle financially and await compensation from the United Nations as many continue to drink from and bathe in a river that became ground zero for the waterborne disease. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

A decade after deadly cholera epidemic, Haiti awaits help

By EVENS SANON and EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

A bystander is assisted by police after officers fired tear gas to disperse a protest demanding justice for a student demonstrator who was gunned down and killed by police the previous week at the university where students were protesting on campus for government teaching jobs in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, Oct. 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

1 killed as Haitian college students protest earlier death

By EVENS SANON - Associated Press

President Donald Trump participates in a Latinos for Trump Coalition roundtable at Treasure Island Hotel &amp; Casino, Sunday, Sept. 13, 2020, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Appeals court backs Donald Trump on ending deportation amnesty for ‘s—-hole’ countries

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Jan. 8, 2018, file photo, Mateo Barrera, 4, originally from El Salvador, whose family members benefit from Temporary Protected Status attends a news conference in Los Angeles. The Trump administration can end humanitarian protections that have allowed hundreds of thousands of people from El Salvador, Nicaragua, Haiti and Sudan to remain in the United States, a divided appeals court ruled Monday, Sept. 14, 2020. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals lifted a preliminary injunction that had blocked the government from ending Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, for people from those four countries. People from El Salvador would be most affected. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

Court: Trump can end temporary legal status for 4 countries

By ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press

Women and children sit idle at a migrant camp amid the new coronavirus pandemic in Lajas Blancas, Darien province, Panama, Saturday, Aug. 29, 2020. In Lajas Blancas, the migrants did not wear masks or practice social distancing, but Panama's Public Security Minister Juan Pino said there have not been more than 10 infections among the migrants. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco) **FILE**

Stalled by pandemic, migrants press in quest for better life

By JUAN ZAMORANO - Associated Press

Transgender Semi Kaefra Alisha Fermond smiles after receiving a lollipop from neighborhood street vendors as she makes her way to the Kay Trans Haiti center to celebrate her 24th birthday, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday, Aug. 7, 2020. Prejudice and discrimination against transgender people is common in Haiti, but the Kay Trans Haiti center is providing a haven where transgender people can feel welcome and accepted. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

AP PHOTOS: Haitian center a refuge for transgender people

By CHERY DIEU-NALIO - Associated Press

Prominent lawyer in Haiti is shot and killed at his home

By EVENS SANON - Associated Press

US detaining more migrant children in hotels despite outcry

By NOMAAN MERCHANT and EVENS SANON - Associated Press

Cesar Reyes, right, carries a sheet of plywood to cut to size as he and Robert Aparicio, left, and Manuel Sepulveda, not pictured, install window coverings at Strand Brass and Christmas on the Strand, 2115 Strand St., in Galveston on Monday, Aug. 24, 2020. Ginger Herter, who manages the shop, was erring on the side of caution boarding up the storefront as she waits to see what path Tropical Storm Laura will take as it heads toward the Texas and Louisiana coasts. &quot;I'd rather do this and have to take them down rather than scramble to get them up later in the week,&quot; she said. ( Jennifer Reynolds/The Galveston County Daily News via AP)

Laura, now a hurricane, takes aim at U.S. Gulf Coast

By Rebecca Santana and Jeff Martin - Associated Press

Street vendors wade a flooded street during the passing of Tropical Storm Laura in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday, Aug. 23, 2020. Laura battered the Dominican Republic and Haiti and is heading for a possible hit on the Louisiana coast at or close to hurricane force as a hurricane, along with Tropical Storm Marco. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

‘In the bullseye:’ Gulf preps for Laura to slam as hurricane

By KEVIN McGILL and SETH BORENSTEIN - Associated Press

Sony Remond, a Haitian who has just been deported from the United States kneels on the tarmac at the Toussaint Louverture International Airport, before he is to be transported to a hotel to undergo a 14-day mandated quarantine, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, June 23, 2020. ( AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

Prosecutors order ex Haiti strongman transferred to new jail

By EVENS SANON - Associated Press

Former paramilitary leader Emmanuel Constant is detained by Haitian police at his arrival to the Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, June 23, 2020. Human rights groups have accused Constant of killing and torturing Haitians when he became the leader of the Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haiti after President Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s presidency was toppled in 1991. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

US deports ex-paramilitary leader ‘Toto’ Constant to Haiti

By EVENS SANON and DÁNICA COTO - Associated Press

A family peers from the window of their home as they wait to receive boxes of free food, during a lockdown to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, in Bogota, Colombia, Monday, May 4, 2020. The U.N. World Food Program is warning that upward of at least 14 million people could go hungry in Latin America as the coronavirus pandemic rages on, shuttering people in their homes, drying up work and crippling the economy. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

UN: Virus could push 14 million into hunger in Latin America

By CHRISTINE ARMARIO - Associated Press

30 deported to Haiti, but ex-strongman remains in US

By EVENS SANON - Associated Press

Charitable runs, walks learn to adapt to crowd limits

By WILL GRAVES - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 3, 2019, file photo, runners take part in the New York City Marathon in New York. Non-profit organizations across the country are scrambling to keep their causes front of mind in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. Social distancing measures brought on by the coronavirus have forced non-profits that use participatory events like charity walks and runs as fundraisers are getting creative. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez, File)

Running on empty? Charity events wary in time of COVID-19

By WILL GRAVES - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2020 file photo, orphans sit inside a social services bus after police removed them from a children's home run by the Orphanage of the Church of Bible Understanding (COBU), following a fire at one of the organization's other homes in Kenscoff, on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The fire on Feb. 13 killed 13 children and two adult caretakers described as disabled by authorities and the church's lawyer. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery, File)

US church faces neglect allegations after Haiti child deaths

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN and BEN FOX - Associated Press