Elections ahead

28 November 2010 08:00 am

Sri Lankan U.N. soldiers load electoral material in a truck to be distributed in the town of Leogane. Sunday's presidential and legislative elections are going ahead despite the huge challenges of holding a nationwide poll in the Western Hemisphere's poorest state. Haiti, its infrastructure already weak, is recovering from a devastating earthquake in January and battling a worsening cholera epidemic that has already killed 2,000 people. Reuters