New start for Haiti

Haiti's new president, Michel Martelly, has been sworn in with a promise to wake the country up and a request for people to trust him.




A former leader of one the world's richest countries, President Bill Clinton, was invited for the ceremony in this, one of the world's poorest.




Haiti's fragile infrastructure was destroyed by a devastating earthquake last year, a point demonstrated by an embarrassing power-cut during the inauguration.




Nearly a third of a million people died in the quake.

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