Haiti In Crisis

UN Peacekeepers have not been able to stem the humanitarian crisis in Haiti, and now the Haitian government has collapsed.

Haiti's government fell on Saturday when senators fired the prime minister after more than a week of riots over food prices, ignoring a plan presented by the president to slash the cost of rice.

During a special session, 16 of 17 senators voted against Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis, an ally President Rene Preval placed at the head of a coalition cabinet in June 2006 that was meant to unite the fractious Caribbean nation. (Reuters)

The misery in Haiti knows no end.