Haiti, Wyclef Jean | featured news

Hip-hop singer Wyclef Jean was recovering Sunday after he was shot in the hand, his publicist said.

Hip-hop star Wyclef Jean says he will launch a legal challenge to a ruling barring him from standing in Haiti's presidential election.

Electoral council nixes hip-hop artist's bid to run for president of his quake-ravaged homeland.

A day before Haiti's election commission is scheduled to make a decision on whether Wyclef Jean is eligible to run for president, the hip-hop artist met with Haitian President Rene Preval and is "optimistic," according to an advisor.

Haitian hip-hop star Wyclef Jean registered as a presidential contender on Thursday, in a move into politics that generated an outburst of popular enthusiasm in his poor, earthquake-ravaged homeland.