PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Impoverished Haiti, long afflicted by political turmoil and natural disasters, will hold presidential and legislative elections on Sunday under the scourge of a deadly cholera epidemic.

With dozens of cholera victims dying each day and the death toll climbing well over 1,250, Haitians are being asked to elect a new president, a 99-member parliament and 11 members of the 30-seat Senate to lead the recovery of the Caribbean nation following a crippling January earthquake.
Reports that Nepalese UN peacekeepers brought the cholera to Haiti -- a theory rebuffed as inconclusive so far by the United Nations -- have triggered anti-U.N. riots and protests, complicating both the task of organizing the polls and the struggling international aid response to the cholera outbreak.