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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) \u2014 Japan<\/a> and the Organization of American States signed a deal Tuesday to award Haiti<\/a> a $3 million grant to help it register voters as the troubled country prepares to hold general elections for the first time in more than a decade.<\/p>\n

The money will help Haiti\u2019s government update its voter lists and procure 350,000 blank identification cards, the OAS said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Gang violence<\/a> has displaced a record 1.5 million people across Haiti, with many leaving their IDs and other important documents behind when fleeing their homes under attack by armed men in Port-au-Prince and beyond.<\/p>\n

The OAS said the grant also would help reduce the backlog of Haitians awaiting identification, expand services in rural communities and improve power and internet connections in decentralized offices.<\/p>\n

Last month, Haiti\u2019s government began voter registration<\/a> in Port-au-Prince, where an estimated 70% of territory is controlled by gangs.<\/p>\n

The first round of elections is scheduled for Dec. 13, although experts have said ongoing gang violence could push back the date once again.<\/p>\n

Haiti hasn\u2019t had a president since Jovenel Mo\u00efse was killed at his private residence<\/a> in July 2021. Mo\u00efse became president following the November 2016 elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) \u2014 Japan and the Organization of American States signed a deal Tuesday to award Haiti…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1550,373,10980,487,1186,29461,1001,8,1505,49075,10645,180,49143,5200,49077,213],"class_list":["post-76575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-japan","tag-2026-elections","tag-asia-pacific","tag-central-america","tag-elections","tag-general-news","tag-haiti","tag-international-news","tag-japan","tag-japan-government","tag-jovenel-moise","tag-latin-america","tag-politics","tag-port-au-prince","tag-voting","tag-voting-rights","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}