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S.Africa: Aristide: No asylum offered

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Original Post Date: 2004-02-29  Posted By: Jan

From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 2/29/2004 11:55:53 AM
S.Africa: Aristide: No asylum offered

Johannesburg – South African officials said on Sunday they had made no offer of asylum to Haiti’s embattled leader, despite reports that President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was headed to the country.

“We have had no contact with Aristide and are not expecting him in the country,” South African presidential spokesman Bheki Khumalo said.

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Ronnie Mamoepa said he too was “not aware of any such development.”

Bowing to pressure from a rebellion at home and governments abroad, Aristide resigned and fled Haiti on Sunday, US and Haitian officials said. There were conflicting accounts of his whereabouts.

Radio stations in Haiti reported that a jet carrying the ex-leader landed on the island of Antigua for refueling and was headed to South Africa.

But a Cabinet minister and close adviser to Aristide, Leslie Voltaire, said he was flying to the Dominican Republic and would seek asylum in Morocco, Taiwan or Panama.

Word that Aristide might be headed here came after local news reports that South Africa was sending a consignment of police weapons and ammunition to Haiti to support the government.

Edited by Wilmer Muller

Source: NEWS24.COM
URL: http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-…br>