United Nations forces need to stay on while Haiti builds a competent, nonpolitical police force.

Lawmakers in Haiti’s lower house on Friday unanimously approved the nomination of Garry Conille, an advisor to former US president Bill Clinton, to be the country’s prime minister.

Protesters calling for the withdrawal of U.N. peacekeepers from Haiti clashed with police Wednesday outside the earthquake-damaged Haitian National Palace.

LA GRANDE COLLINE, Haiti – With mist drifting across the treetops and thousands of frogs singing, it was hard to believe this cloud forest in the mountains was less than 120 miles from the squalor of Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince.

LA GRANDE COLLINE, Haiti – With mist drifting across the treetops and thousands of frogs singing, it was hard to believe this cloud forest in the mountains was less than 120 miles from the squalor of Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince.

LA GRANDE COLLINE, Haiti – With mist drifting across the treetops and thousands of frogs singing, it was hard to believe this cloud forest in the mountains was less than 120 miles from the squalor of Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince.

Quake-Ravaged Haiti Still Without a Government

Brazil’s defense minister called Thursday for a 15 percent cut in Haiti’s peacekeeping force of 12,000 soldiers and police as the start of a gradual withdrawal aimed at turning security over to the Haitians themselves.

Haiti’s president on Thursday unveiled an advisory board of former leaders, business executives and bankers that he hopes can make this poor Caribbean nation a more business friendly place and attract foreign investment.

Foreign ministers and defense chiefs from the Latin American countries that have more than 12,000 peacekeepers in Haiti called a meeting Thursday to consider how the alleged sex abuse of a Haitian teenager by Uruguayan sailors might affect the future of the U.N. mission.