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I don’t know what is special in September, 21, to call it a Peace Day.
Well, if the UN Peacekeeping Forces were established on this date in the forties of the last century, I would not say that calling a particular day as PEACE DAY is a very good...
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Life is beautiful as sun shines and a few cents in a pocket allow somehow “feeding a worm in a stomach” and getting around in a healthy state.
In such a state,...
made popular Sep 13 2011
After 25 years in exile, Jean-Claude Duvalier aka “Baby Doc” has returned to Haiti and the question of the day is- what on earth is he doing there? His...
made popular Jan 18 2011
It’s been a year since a massive earthquake devastated Haiti. Days after, huge sections of the country lay in rubble. But in spite of the fact that the world...
made popular Jan 13 2011
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — International observers are waiting on Haiti’s president to accept a report suggesting his party’s candidate be eliminated...
made popular Jan 11 2011
The prime minister of Haiti, has criticised the international community for not allowing his country to play a bigger role in its own reconstruction, following an...
made popular Dec 27 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Supporters of one of her competitors in Haiti’s presidential election set barricades on fire and threw rubble at cars when initial...
made popular Dec 14 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI - The streets of Haiti’s capital were mostly quiet Monday, as the international observers who monitored Sunday’s tumultuous elections...
made popular Nov 30 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI - Haiti’s much-anticipated presidential election ended Sunday as broken as the buildings around the capital city, with protests flaring...
made popular Nov 29 2010
Widespread irregularities in Haiti’s presidential and legislative race Sunday led most candidates to call for the election to be voided.
made popular Nov 29 2010
Over the past month about 1,200 Haitians have died in an outbreak of cholera while thousands more have sought treatment in hospitals.
made popular Nov 23 2010
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Haiti’s cholera epidemic caused by weather, say scientists
made popular Nov 22 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Crushed buildings from the January earthquake still spill out onto sidewalks here, people are collapsing from cholera at hospital doors and a...
made popular Nov 22 2010
UNITED NATIONS: The UN has rejected the charge that Nepali peacekeepers in Haiti brought cholera to the Caribbean nation which claimed more than 1,100...
made popular Nov 19 2010
A Southwest Florida woman who visited family in the disease-stricken Artibonite Valley of Haiti and a Haitian construction worker who lives in the eastern Dominican...
made popular Nov 18 2010
MEXICO CITY — Medical authorities in Haiti defended their decision Tuesday not to focus on finding the origins of a cholera outbreak that has killed more than 1,000...
made popular Nov 17 2010
At least one man has been shot dead in clashes with UN peacekeepers in Haiti, amid a continuing cholera epidemic that has killed more than 900 people.
UN troops fired...
made popular Nov 16 2010
Crowds hurled rocks, set up burning barricades and blocked roads to protest over the foreign troops and the government’s response to the crisis
made popular Nov 16 2010
The UN has appealed for nearly $164m (£102m) to fight a cholera outbreak in Haiti which has now claimed 724 lives.
made popular Nov 12 2010
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PORT-AU-PRINCE: The toll in the cholera epidemic in Haiti has risen to 724, authorities said.
The disease has infected a total of 11,125 people nationwide, according...
made popular Nov 12 2010
It seems uncommonly cruel and unjust that a nation as devastated as Haiti is facing the threat of a cholera epidemic even as it struggles to cope with the aftermath of...
made popular Nov 11 2010
Health officials say the country’s epidemic is now a matter of `national security’ as the disease has started to spread in the earthquake-battered capital...
made popular Nov 10 2010
At least 120 people in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, are being tested for cholera, health officials say.
Doctors have told the BBC the disease is...
made popular Nov 9 2010
Haitian authorities confirmed Saturday that five people have died and 57 were injured in the torrential rains that fell Friday in the nation’s capital and other...
made popular Sep 27 2010
Hip-hop star Wyclef Jean says he no longer plans to run in Haiti’s November presidential election.
The star’s decision comes a month after his candidacy...
made popular Sep 22 2010
It was after midnight in a remote annex of this isolated tent camp on a windswept gravel plain. Marjorie Saint Hilaire’s three boys were fast asleep, but her mind was...
made popular Sep 20 2010
After an abrupt end to his Haitian presidential campaign, Wyclef Jean has resorted to singing nasty songs about his critics. The singer-turned-politician-turned-singer...
made popular Sep 7 2010
The desperate quest to find loved ones started just minutes after the earthquake, as cell phones rang unanswered from beneath the rubble of Haiti’s best hotel.
A...
made popular Sep 2 2010
The hip-hop star Wyclef Jean’s bid to become the president of Haiti appeared to be in doubt last night after an election official said he was not on the list of...
made popular Aug 20 2010
Wyclef Jean has gone into hiding following alleged death threats as he awaits an official announcement on whether he can run in Haiti’s November’s...
made popular Aug 19 2010
A decision on who is eligible to run for president in Haiti has been postponed until Friday, leaving hip-hop artist Wyclef Jean and the other presidential hopefuls in...
made popular Aug 18 2010
Haitian-born musician Wyclef Jean has said he will run for president of the earthquake-hit Caribbean country.
The Fugees star will officially announce his candidacy on...
made popular Aug 9 2010
If there is any hope for Haiti, you surely find it in the broad smile of six-year-old Telia Jacques.
She smiles despite her thin left leg that will not fully...
made popular Jul 23 2010
Opponents of Haiti’s president hope to halt traffic and shut down businesses in the capital to press for a postponement of Nov. 28 elections.
Transport union...
made popular Jul 22 2010
Bill Clinton has promised to get tough with countries which pledged billions of dollars in aid to earthquake-ravaged Haiti but have yet to deliver the money they...
made popular Jul 16 2010
British photographer Leah Gordon has compiled an extraordinary catalogue of photographs depicting pre-Lent Mardi Gras festivities in Jacmel, a coastal town in southern...
made popular Jul 9 2010
Esquire’s August issue hits newsstands next week with a focus on “The Impossible,” which sounds like an apt description of rebuilding Haiti. The...
made popular Jul 9 2010
Haiti’s president on Wednesday rejected U.S. Senate recommendations on holding an election for his successor, brushing off criticism that the current process will...
made popular Jul 1 2010
Haiti’s population is rebounding from January’s devastating earthquake and is on course to boom over following decades, according to the US census...
made popular Jul 1 2010
The 22-year-old woman, wearing a gauzy blue dress that she had changed into after her release, spoke in a whispery voice.
Perhaps the worst part of the whole ordeal,...
made popular Jun 28 2010
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Brazil’s Defense Minister Nelson Jobim, left, and Bolivia’s Defense Minister Walker San Miguel, center, attend a medal ceremony at the U.N. Brazilian base in Port-au-Prince, Saturday, April 25, 2009. Jobim and San Miguel are on a one-day official...
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