Gerard Latortue, the man chosen to lead Haiti out of political and social turmoil, arrived in Port-au-Prince to begin the arduous task of building a transitional government and eventually organising elections.

US MARINES shot and killed two gunmen who opened fire on them yesterday, bringing to four the number of Haitians to die this week at the hands of the peacekeepers.

GUNMEN opened fire on an opposition rally in Haiti yesterday, killing at least six people, including a journalist, and wounding 34 more, as Haitians awaited the naming of a government.

BEFORE a raging fire, rebel fighters in this bleak western town offered metal scraps to a voodoo war god, portending still more violence for Haiti.