Possible Clues:

• Greeting used round small island, one in the Caribbean
• Papa Doc's country
• West part of Hispaniola
• Its national anthem is 'La Dessalinienne'
• Hispaniola's western half
• Voodoo land
• Audubon's birthplace, today
• Militia has withdrawn having captured part of island
• Former French colony
• Jean-Bertrand Aristide's country