Gunshots ring out as Haitain President returns from the U.N.

Gunshots rang out in the streets of Port-au-Prince Friday just as Haitain President Jovenel Moise returned upon his return from the U.N. General Assembly.
Gunshots rang out in the streets of Port-au-Prince Friday (September 22) just as Haitian President Jovenel Moise was walking in public upon his return from the U.N. General Assembly.
Moise, a former banana exporter, was declared president in January 2017 after an election initially held in 2015, which then had to be rerun more than a year later because of allegations of voter fraud.
At a news conference, Moise announced that he would use U.N. funds for cholera eradication.
"The first $40 million dollars promised by the United Nations will go to sanitation and potable water," Moise said.
Haiti is bitterly divided between political supporters of President Moise and former presidential candidate Jean-Charles Moise, who called for large demonstrations to protest tax increases earlier this month.
Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, and although it escaped the devastation that some of its Caribbean neighbours experienced from Hurricanes Irma and Maria this year, it is still recovering from Hurricane Matthew last October, which killed up to 1,000 people and left 1.4 million in need of humanitarian assistance.
At the same time, foreign aid to Haiti is slowing.