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Milken Conference: Sean Penn Calls Out Media for Haiti Coverage

Sean Penn The actor/humanitarian said the country, the poorest in the Western Hemisphere, deserves outside investment. Sean Penn called out the media — especially “left-leaning…

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PASTOR WALLACE TURNBULL ASKS A QUESTION, THAT DESERVES AN ANSWER

Hi, folks, We have a problem: Haiti’s grading of rheto & philo students needs to be standardized, to avoid confusion upon application for university acceptance….

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Florida university opens TB lab in Haiti

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The University of Florida on Wednesday opened a state-of-the-art lab in Haiti to train researchers to better understand and fight tuberculosis. The…

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Germain in Haiti: The many orphans of Port-au-Prince

(Note: CBC does not endorse and is not responsible for the content of external links.) Karen Whitten, an OR nurse with Team Broken Earth, embraces…

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China: Firm 3D prints 10 full-sized houses in a day

25 April 2014 Last updated at 07:27 ET By News from Elsewhere… …media reports from around the world, found by BBC Monitoring Other architects are…

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Les réponses d’urgence du gouvernement américain pour faire face à la sécheresse dans le nord-ouest d’Haïti -Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth

Le gouvernement américain, à travers le bureau «Food For Peace» de l’Agence Américaine pour le Développement International (USAID), a alloué un montant de quatre (4)…

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Haiti in the Shadow of Cholera

NY Times Editorial Board: The problem of ending Haiti’s cholera epidemic does not stem from an absence of planning. There is a 10-year plan to…

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Some Haitian quake displaced camps growing again

Trenton Daniel Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Many of the camps for Haitians displaced by the 2010 earthquake are growing again, even as the…

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Up-to-date data geocoding helps bring success to Haiti recovery

Dina Abdel-Fattah for AidData – WNN Breaking An aerial view of downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti shows the vast devastation that hit the region after the earthquake…

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Haiti’s current drought: An opportunity to build climate change resilience?

April 22, 2014 Posted by Guest Blogger The mayor of Grande-Saline in rural Artibonite, Haiti enlisted support from Oxfam in 2011 to address flood control….

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WHEN THE CHIP ARE DOWN – UN PEACEKEEPERS ARE IMPOTENT OR UNWILLING TO KEEP PEACE-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth

By Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA (Reuters) – Uganda’s army, backing its neighbour South Sudan against a four-month-old rebellion, said on Wednesday U.N. peacekeepers should have done…

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Grievability and the Right to Fight in Haiti

This story begins with the earthquake, but it is not about the earthquake. Marie Ginie was 14 when the earthquake destroyed her home. No one…

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Why Haiti’s deadly cholera epidemic ‘could strike again’

Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) — In January 2010 a seven-point magnitude earthquake rocked Haiti, killing more than 250,000 people and damaging its infrastructure, including some water…

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Haiti turns to Taiwan

Haiti’s President Michel Martelly TAIPEI, Taiwan (CMC) — Haitian President Michel Martelly arrived here yesterday for a four-day state visit. Martelly, accompanied by his wife,…

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U.N. Struggles to Stem Haiti Cholera Epidemic

By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD and SOMINI SENGUPTA A young Haitian fishing in the Latem River, known to be contaminated. The country is still struggling to…

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Haiti’s 128-room Royal Oasis Hotel Opens Nearly Three Years After Being Hammered by Disaster and with a Project Cost Growing from $19 Million to $35 Million-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth

By jacqueline charles, The Miami HeraldMcClatchy-Tribune Regional NewsDec. 14, 2012–PETIONVILLE — The long-awaited soiree in the middle of the week attracted an invitation-only crowd of…

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Audit Finds US Housing Aid Program in Haiti Falls Short -Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth

PORT-AU-PRINCE — A post-earthquake housing program in Haiti funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has delivered only a quarter of the planned…

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Can ‘upcycling’ give Haiti’s fashion industry a boost?

Discarded clothing often ends up in Haiti, fueling a booming secondhand market. A new recycling trend could help the country’s hard-hit tailors and seamstresses Amy…

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OAS Permanent Council Bids Farewell to the Permanent Representative of Haiti

OAS Permanent Council Bids Farewell to the Permanent Representative of Haiti April 9, 2014 Photo: OAS The Permanent Council of the Organization of American States…

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New taxis and Politour in Toussaint Louverture International Airport

Haiti Libre: Tuesday, two months after the launch of the accompanying program for the ssociations of Tourist Taxi drivers, theMinistry of Tourism has proceeded, to…