Hti: So whatever happened to South Africa?

Nigeria has agreed to a request by Caribbean leaders to grant former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide temporary asylum, the nation's presidency said Monday.

The request came from the 15-nation Caribbean Community, known as Caricom, Nigerian presidential spokeswoman Remi Oyo said in a statement late Monday.

The statement did not say whether Aristide had requested - or even agreed to - asylum in Nigeria.
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Caricom, "under the leadership" of Jamaican Prime Minister P.J. Patterson, "requested Nigeria to consider giving former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti 'a staging post' for a few weeks until his movement to another destination," said the presidential statement, issued in the capital, Abuja.

"After receiving the Caricom request, Nigeria undertook widespread consultations with African leaders, the leadership of the African Union, the U.S. government and other concerned parties," the statement said. "Nigeria has agreed to grant the request."

I still think that Aristide is intending to go to Venezuela. Why the haste in obtaining a place of asylum for Aristide? Wasn't he invited to spend two months in Jamaica? He's been there barely a week, and already Caricom heads are trying to shuffle him off. What is this? Doesn't Caricom want Aristide? Most likely Caricom's figured out that's what's sweet in goat mouth is sour in his arse.