A REBEL convoy was greeted with jubilation when it rolled in to the capital yesterday as US troops hit the streets to help quell the violence following the departure of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

REBELS set their sights on the rest of Haiti yesterday after swooping in to take the country’s second-largest city in an escalation of a bloody rebellion against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

HAITI plunged deeper into crisis yesterday as political opponents of President Jean Bertrand Aristide rejected international appeals to accept a power-sharing plan that stops short of the embattled leader's departure.

HAITI remained tense yesterday as Europe considered sending aid and the Red Cross and UN warned the chaos in the Caribbean country was threatening hospitals and causing food shortages.