Epress.am News from Armenia
Haiti is scheduled to elect a new leader on 28 November and Haitian-born musician Wyclef Jean has said he will run for president of the Caribbean country, which was hit by a devastating earthquake in January that killed more than 250,000 people, reports BBC News.
Wyclef, who is ambassador-at-large of Haiti, told Time magazine that the devastation that followed the earthquake had motivated him to make a bid for the leadership.
“If not for the earthquake, I probably would have waited another 10 years before doing this,” Jean said.
“The quake drove home to me that Haiti can’t wait another 10 years for us to bring it into the 21st Century.”
Wyclef, who lives in New York, is founder of the humanitarian Yele Haiti Foundation, and has played a prominent role in securing aid since the earthquake that left 1.5 million people homeless.
The singer and producer, who left Haiti as a child and grew up in Brooklyn, also plans to build a bridge between the Haiti and the Haitian diaspora in the US.