Report from Médecins Sans Frontières Published on 07 Dec 2016 — View Original Port-au-Prince – It has now been two months since Hurricane Matthew devastated southwest Haiti, and thousands of people are still without adequate food, safe drinking water and shelter. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is concerned about the deterioration of living conditions, particularly...
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Haiti Libre: The Ministry of Education says to be “Deeply concerned by the criminal attacks against schools in the South, notably in the national congregational schools St Joseph de Torbeck, Justin Lhérisson and Boisrond Tonnerre that were burnt…” The Ministry denounces and condemns these criminal acts that jeopardize ongoing efforts to allow children to...
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Men and women line up to receive bags of planting seeds in Jeremie, Grand’Anse Department, one of the areas hit hardest by Hurricane Matthew. © FAO Hurricane Matthew struck blow to agriculture, 1.4 million people in need of food assistance 6 December 2016, Rome− With little time to lose to secure a winter harvest...
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David Love - Demonstrators protest the government of President Michel Martelly in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday, January. 24, 2016. (AP Photo / Dieu Nalio Chery)As the world’s first Black republic, Haiti holds a special place as the first nation in the Western hemisphere to abolish slavery. Haiti secured its freedom from slavery and colonial oppression...
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More than 30,000 children will benefit from a grant awarded to the University of Notre Dame by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to improve early-grade literacy in Haiti. The grant is a part of a broader national campaign of the Haitian Catholic Church and its partners to improve literacy outcomes in 1,000...
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November 29, 2016 The Electoral Observation Mission of the Organization of American States (EOM/OAS) in Haiti takes note of the preliminary results of the November 20 presidential election presented yesterday by the Electoral Provisional Council (CEP). The preliminary results show significant margins between the number of votes obtained by the candidates contesting the election...
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