None of the candidates for Haiti’s Senate received the majority vote needed to win outright in balloting this month, leaving 11 vacant seats up for grabs in the runoff election.

Results of Haiti’s Senate elections will likely not be known for more than a week despite an apparent low turnout, an election official said Monday.

Clear-plastic ballot boxes were nearly empty and Port-au-Prince’s streets unusually deserted Sunday as few voters turned out for Senate elections in which candidates from a major populist party were not allowed to run.

Haitian President Rene Preval could see his economic projects and constitutional reform emerge as the big winners when long-delayed Senate elections are finally held on Sunday.

Women selling hot peppers and black beans in a sprawling market in Haiti’s capital talk of their unending economic woes, their hungry children and their dismal hopes that politicians will do anything about it.

The pain was different from before _ deeper, sharper. Everyone else was sleeping in the banana grove shack, but Yslande Aristide could not bear it. She stood on the dirt floor and started to scream.

A U.N. Security Council delegation praised the party of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide on Saturday for fighting to overturn the disqualification of its Senate candidates, saying it could help avert a potentially dangerous crisis.

A U.N. Security Council delegation began a four-day mission Wednesday in Haiti to encourage stability and economic progress weeks ahead of a critical donor conference and long-delayed Senate elections.

Bill Clinton and U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon sought to refocus international attention on Haiti Monday with a visit they hope will lure more aid to keep the impoverished country from sliding back into chaos.

Bill Clinton and U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon are trying to refocus international attention on Haiti with a visit Monday they hope will lure more aid to keep the impoverished country from sliding back into chaos.