(BBC) Hundreds of people have marched through Haiti’s capital to protest the ouster of the country’s football squad from a youth tournament in Jamaica on health grounds.
Jamaica’s Ministry of Health recommended to Concacaf under-17 tournament officials last week that the Haitian squad be forced to withdraw.
That followed tests that showed at least two players had tested positive for malaria.
Jamaica said the decision was “unavoidable and necessary in order to safeguard public health.”
Yves Jean Bart, president of the Haitian Football Federation, called the decision an outrage.
“They think that all Haitians are diseased,” he told the Associated Press during Saturday’s protest, which drew about 1,500 people.
