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Several thousand people have taken part in a protest in Haiti, demanding that the United Nations pays compensation to people with cholera. The protesters say UN peacekeepers inadvertently carried the disease into Haiti, causing an epidemic which has killed almost 7,000 people. Several studies have found that cholera was probably brought to Haiti by...
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Iran’s Press TV on Thursday broadcast an extended video tour of the U.S. spy drone that went down in the country–and it indeed appeared to look mostly intact. American officials have acknowledged that an unmanned U.S. reconnaissance plane was lost on a mission late last week, but have insisted that there is no evidence...
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On October 14, the U.N. Security Council voted to renew the mandate of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), paving the way for the peacekeeping force’s eighth year of operations in the Caribbean nation. The unanimous decision was made with little discussion of allegations that peacekeepers in Haiti have committed serious abuses,...
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November 24, 2011 The Martelly team is focused upon making money over the graves of Haiti’s 300,000 earthquake victims. For all of his promises to do away with corruption and bring the Aristide/Preval thieves to justice, Martelly has done the exact opposite. He goes dancing, with Preval, in an obscene show that is really...
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(AP) PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Almost two years after an earthquake devastated Haiti, less than half of the $4.6 billion in pledged aid has been disbursed and political squabbling is threatening to bring coordinated reconstruction efforts to an abrupt halt. An ambitious panel tasked with overseeing efforts to rebuild Haiti, co-chaired by former U.S. President...
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As the Democratic Republic of Congo prepares for just its second general elections in four decades on 28 November, Congolese affairs analyst Theodore Trefon considers whether this failed state, still recovering from a war which led to an estimated four million deaths, can ever be rebuilt. People in the Democratic Republic of Congo expect...
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The President of Haiti, Michel Martelly informs that a plane carrying 19 officials of Government of Haiti has made an emergency landing in Cuba. He also reported that the plane landed safely and there were no injuries, but he did not specify the state of emergency. Damian Merlo, spokesman for the President Martelly said...
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Jacob Kushner, Florida Center for Investigative Reporting SFGate.com: Port-Au-Prince, Haiti – When longtime Los Angeles resident Wilberle Vereus arrived in Haiti after being deported from the United States, he was taken to the Petionville jail above Port-au-Prince and placed in a 20-by-10-foot cell along with three other deportees and a group of Haitian prisoners. Vereus,...
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Washington Post:AP:PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — An adviser in Haiti’s government says a helicopter carrying Prime Minister Garry Conille and two other Cabinet members has made an emergency landing in the hills above the capital. Adviser Damian Merlo says he was on the aircraft and the pilot landed in a field of crops because unexpected...
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BostonGlobe.com PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti—A Haitian lawmaker whose name surfaced on a list of inmates who fled the country’s main prison the day of last year’s earthquake was detained by police Thursday shortly after his flight from France landed at the capital’s airport. The detention of Dep. Arnel Belizaire marks a rare instance of a government...
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