Wyclef Jean received death threats last year
Haitian-born singer Wyclef Jean has been shot in Haiti on the eve of presidential elections on the Caribbean island.
The former Fugees frontman has been supporting presidential candidate and fellow musician Michel Martelly.
Wyclef Jean was in the city Delmas, just outside the capital Port-au-Prince, when he was shot in the hand.
He is receiving emergency treatment in hospital.
Last August US-based Wyclef Jean, 41, abandoned his own bid to be president because the country's constitution requires candidates to have lived there for five
years before an election.
He had to go into hiding in Haiti after receiving death threats.
'In the past couple of days we have received a few death threats... We know this situation we've embarked on, death threats come with the territory,' he announced from his hideout in hometown Lassere.
Wyclef Jean - who was appointed the government's ambassador-at-large in 2007 - has worked tirelessly with his charity the Yele Haiti Foundation to help the people of Haiti.
He was a prominent figure in the fundraising efforts following the
earthquake that devastated the Haiti in January 2010.
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