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AGRITRANS

Mai 29, 2016 Agritrans (élément de langage au cas où nos détracteurs veulent en parler) – envoyé à la Cellule de communication Ø  Position générale…

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UN agencies support Government in vaccination campaign against cholera

Government of Haiti has launched a vaccination campaign against cholera that aims to reach 400,000 people in 2016. Photo: UN/MINUSTAH/Logan Abassi 25 May 2016 –…

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150 experts say Olympics must be moved or postponed because of Zika

By Lena H. Sun May 27 Children play in a water fountain next to Olympic rings at Madureira Park in Rio de Janeiro in July…

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Advice for Hillary Clinton on Her Brother’s Bad Judgment

Tony Rodham’s involvement in a gold-mining operation in Haiti is under scrutiny. By John Cavanagh Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton The Washington Post reported…

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Concern in Haiti over emerging condition linked to Zika

By DAVID McFADDEN The Associated Press MIREBALAIS, Haiti (AP) — Berny Saint-Sauveur was moaning and incoherent when his family carried him into a hospital in…

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Fight against Zika virus makes Haiti key battleground

(Photo: Larry McCormack / The Tennessean and Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting) GRESSIER, Haiti — Dr. Bernard Okech, a medical entomology associate professor at the University…

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Haiti poultry industry still feels pain of US imports

LAFITEAU, Haiti — Henry Chatelain remembers the disappointment he felt in 1998, when his employer, a Haitian chicken production company, shut down and its 500 workers…

Posted in Ag/Farming DAILY REPORTS-Direct From Haiti

You are cordially invited to attend a Screening of KOMBIT: The Cooperative

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Commentary: Can this one chocolate startup put Haiti back on the map?

Chocolate production. Photo: Askanya By Daniella Bien-Aime caribbeannewsnow.com The idea of starting a successful business in Haiti is laughable to many, but Corinne Joachim Sanon…

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Haiti – FLASH : Bad weather, many areas under water

Post by Haiti Libre: Video submitted by user Since Friday, Haiti is under the influence of a localized front on the eastern part of Cuba…

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Zika ‘Very Likely’ to Spread From Mosquitoes to Humans in US, Official Says

Health officials stressed today that they are doing everything they can to minimize Zika outbreaks in the U.S. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National…

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What U.S. peanut donations mean to Haiti

Residents of Leveque, Haiti, walk to a banana farm’s irrigation channel to collect water. (Dieu Nalio Chery/Associated Press) May 1 Regarding the April 27 editorial…

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Embouteillage sur la route nationale #1, (Plaine du Cul de Sac)`

5:30 ce matin, déjà un grand embouteillage sur la route nationale #1, au niveau de la Plaine du Cul de Sac, particulièrement de Lathan jusqu’à…

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Timberland joins forces with Haitian farmers to rejuvenate barren lands

A project to help farmers in Haiti earn a living from planting fruit trees has given way to a more ambitious goal to farm sustainable…

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World Malaria Day: The Haiti Challenge

PUBLISHED ON 25 April, 2016 BY Ruth Kramer Haiti (MNN) — Malaria is a major public health problem in Haiti. Blessings International’s Haiti Challenge aims…

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Millions Face Starvation As Haiti’s Drought Stretches Into Its Third Year

by Beenish Ahmed Apr 15, 2016 2:19 pm CREDIT: Meghan Dhaliwal for ThinkProgress Mirene Raymond has farmed rice in Haiti for decades, but she says…

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Zika Mutates Extremely Quickly, Which Is Why It’s So Scary

Getty Images Scientists are also questioning how it spreads One thing that’s especially confounding about Zika is that as soon as something about the virus…

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Haiti farmers peeved over US peanuts

Mrebalais – The barefoot farmer oversees three teenage workers as they attack weeds with spades in a sun-baked field of peanut plants, a vital cash…

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Donation of surplus peanuts from US dismays Haiti farmers

MIREBALAIS, Haiti –  The barefoot farmer oversees three teenage workers as they attack weeds with spades in a sunbaked field of peanut plants, a vital…

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ZIKA- Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth

News about Zika keeps getting worse. First is growing evidence that Zika causes of the serious birth defect microcephaly (abnormally small brain and skull) and…