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Made Popular Oct 10 2009
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A U.N. rescue team confirmed there were no survivors among the 11 crew and military personnel on the plane, a Casa-212, when it went down near the town of Fonds-Verrettes, near the border with the Dominican Republic.

The dead were Uruguayans and...

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The global run on food that has led to shortages and riots in Egypt, Haiti and other nations has made its way to U.S. shores. Concerned about rising prices and limited...
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Hunger bashed in the front gate of Haiti’s presidential palace. Hunger poured onto the streets, burning tires and taking on soldiers and the police. Hunger sent the...
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Rice prices have shot up 75 per cent in the past two months alone to reach historic highs. The cost of wheat has climbed by 120 per cent over the past year, more than...
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Carl, Port-au-Prince
The idea of the starving masses driven by their desperation to take to the streets and overthrow the ancien regime has seemed impossibly quaint since capitalism...
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Yash, Bhopal
he goat tethered to a tree outside of Max Beauvoir’s home is doomed. Beauvoir, tall and majestic with closely cropped white hair, is a voodoo priest who was just...
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Four people were killed in southern Haiti when demonstrators protesting the high cost of living clashed with security forces, a local official said The United Nations...
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Deprived residents of Haiti are forced to consume mud biscuits called ‘terre’ and its the only option left for them for their survival and all this is happening due...
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Apr 28 2009 by AP0 Comments

None of the candidates for Haiti’s Senate received the majority vote needed to win outright in balloting this month, leaving 11 vacant seats up for grabs in the runoff election.

 
 
Apr 21 2009 by AP0 Comments

Results of Haiti’s Senate elections will likely not be known for more than a week despite an apparent low turnout, an election official said Monday.

 
 
Apr 19 2009 by AP0 Comments

Clear-plastic ballot boxes were nearly empty and Port-au-Prince’s streets unusually deserted Sunday as few voters turned out for Senate elections in which candidates from a major populist party were not allowed to run.

 
 
Apr 19 2009 by AP0 Comments

Haitian President Rene Preval could see his economic projects and constitutional reform emerge as the big winners when long-delayed Senate elections are finally held on Sunday.

 
 
Apr 16 2009 by AP0 Comments

Women selling hot peppers and black beans in a sprawling market in Haiti’s capital talk of their unending economic woes, their hungry children and their dismal hopes that politicians will do anything about it.

 
 
Mar 15 2009 by AP0 Comments

The pain was different from before _ deeper, sharper. Everyone else was sleeping in the banana grove shack, but Yslande Aristide could not bear it. She stood on the dirt floor and started to scream.

 
 
Mar 14 2009 by AP0 Comments

A U.N. Security Council delegation praised the party of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide on Saturday for fighting to overturn the disqualification of its Senate candidates, saying it could help avert a potentially dangerous crisis.

 
 
Mar 12 2009 by AP0 Comments

A U.N. Security Council delegation began a four-day mission Wednesday in Haiti to encourage stability and economic progress weeks ahead of a critical donor conference and long-delayed Senate elections.

 
 
Mar 9 2009 by AP0 Comments

Bill Clinton and U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon sought to refocus international attention on Haiti Monday with a visit they hope will lure more aid to keep the impoverished country from sliding back into chaos.

 
 
Mar 9 2009 by AP0 Comments

Bill Clinton and U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon are trying to refocus international attention on Haiti with a visit Monday they hope will lure more aid to keep the impoverished country from sliding back into chaos.

 
 
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