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HAITI NOTE:Promising Malaria Drug on the Horizon

02/09/2010 23:11:00 Rachel Howell Stockton Around the world, malaria, transmitted by mosquitoes, is the most significant parasitic disease of humans and claims the lives of…

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Social business fund proposed for Haiti

Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus, the founder of the Grameen Bank, thinks capitalism with a conscience might be the answer to some of Haiti’s ills. BY…

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Haïti: Depuis quelques semaines, Le Nouvelliste – plus particulièrement ses responsables à titre personnel -, reçoit des menaces d’assignation pour avoir repris une information diffusée…

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AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE PREVAL CONTROLLED GANGS: Violence marring Haiti’s recovery The number of kidnappings in the hills above Port-au-Prince has increased as Haiti stands at a political crossroads.

BY TRENTON DANIEL tdaniel@MiamiHerald.com PORT-AU-PRINCE  August 31– A trio of gunmen stormed a gated home in the well-to-do Pelerin neighborhood, shot dead a Sunrise man…

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Haiti Quake a ‘Game Changer’ for Corporate Philanthropy

Leading aid agency expects to see greater corporate involvement in future disaster responses SEATTLE, Aug. 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — As Haiti marks nearly eight months since…

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ELIZABETH DELATOUR-PREVAL CAN HAVE SOME POCKET MONEY: World Bank to give Haiti $55 M

By Azad Ali Published: Monday, August 30, 2010 7:05 PM EDT The World Bank said it will provide $55 million to Haiti to help it…

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Taiwan’s First Lady Left For Haiti on a Humanitarian Visit

By : dpa Taipei – Taiwan’s first lady left for Haiti on a humanitarian visit on Sunday, following the catastrophic earthquake in January which killed…

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DIGICEL HAITI FOUNDATION PARTNERS WITH U.S. GOVERNMENT TO PROVIDE NEW SCHOOLS IN EARTHQUAKE-AFFECTED COMMUNITIES IN HAITI

The first school built under an innovative public-private partnership was opened yesterday by the Digicel Foundation and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). École…

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Tropical Storm EARL Is Building Strength And Heading For Haiti

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Give back stolen cash? Not so easy, Switzerland finds-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth

The Wall Street Journal 23 Aug 2010 Weeks after the overthrow of Haitian dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier in 1986, Haiti asked Switzerland to freeze…

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Nokia Siemens Networks deploys radio network for Haiti’s MultiLink

Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) has been contracted by Haitian broadband operator MultiLink to deploy a microwave radio backhaul network to expand network capacity and coverage….

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What The Red Cross Learned From Its Haiti Mobile Campaign

By ELIZABETH WOYKE Image via Wikipedia When an earthquake devastated Haiti earlier this year, the Red Cross and other nonprofits quickly took action. One notable…

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Digicel Foundation and U.S. Government Partner to Provide New Schools in Earthquake-Affected Communities in Haiti

Port-au-Prince, Haiti — August 26, 2010 — The first school built under an innovative public-private partnership was opened today by the Digicel Foundation and the…

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Thanks Haiti Athletes! New events could become part of Olympics

By Alex Kennedy, Associated Press Writer SINGAPORE — IOC president Jacques Rogge said some of the new events introduced at the Youth Olympics could become…

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WHERE’S THE $$$$$$$$$ Aug 24, 2010 6:29 pm US/Central Red Cross Criticized For Haiti Relief Efforts Hundreds of Millions Of Dollars Poured Into Red Cross To Help Earthquake Victims; Protesters Say Only A Third Of Money Has Been Spent In Haiti-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth

CHICAGO (CBS) ― Protesters criticize the American Red Cross for only spending a third of the money raised after the earthquake in Haiti on relief…

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Randy Mont-Reynaud’s Haiti Blog -See link in Side-bar on our site

Monday, August 23, 2010 USA? Wi, Papa! Out of the blue. It’s a Sunday and I scramble across rubble, gravel, broken glass. Goats watch me,…

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New education system may rise from Haiti’s ruins

Some leaders are seeking to use Haiti’s catastrophic earthquake as an opportunity to fix a broken school system. BY JACQUELINE CHARLES jcharles@MiamiHerald.com PORT-AU-PRINCE — Of…

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Haïti – CIRH : l’ONU n’a pas les fonds pour ses 220 millions de projets

Rebeca Grynspan, Sous-Secrétaire générale des Nations Unies et du développement (PNUD) Administrateur associé, qui a représenté l’ONU lors de la réunion de la Commission Intérimaire…

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Aug 23, 2010 YOUTH OLYMPIC GAMES: SINGAPORE 2010 Haiti crush Cubs Caribbean boys stun hosts 2-0 to book a final date with Bolivia

FOR 10 days, they carried the hopes of the football-mad host nation on their youthful backs. But when the pressure reached its apex in the…

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PREVAL BLOCKS EFFORTS: Despite ‘all that money,’ more than 1 million Haitians remain displaced by January earthquake

By Edward Cody Washington Post Sunday, August 22, 2010; A01 PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI — Immacula Pierre had a question. Why, she wanted to know, are she…