Wyclef for president

Wyclef Jean of the Fugees announced last week he would run for the Haitian Presidency. Many commentators argue that he lacks the experience to run a country, including Laura Freschi at Aid Watch. Steve Burr-Renauld, 23, who hails from an affluent family in Port-au-Prince, doesn't think a hip-hop star has the credentials to run. "What if Jay-Z became President of the US?".

But Time is being less negative: "That Haitian political class, it should be remembered, has its own epic shortcomings, whether measured by incompetence or venality. Haiti's traditional elite has shown an utter failure — and a lack of will — to reform a medieval land-ownership system".