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Le blanchiment d’argent, un coup de pouce au kidnapping

La Nouvelliste:Des biens illicites en nature et en espèce estimés à un montant de 70 millions de dollars américains ont été saisis par les autorités…

Posted in Earthquake/CHOLERA

Louisiana National Guard to lead training exercise in Haiti

PINEVILLE, La. — The Louisiana National Guard will lead a U.S. Southern Command New Horizons training exercise in Haiti comprised of National Guard, Reserve and…

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CRUSH SYNDROME-Experience in Haiti guides treatment for future disasters

By Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles TimesApril 15, 2011, 6:00 a.m. Natural disasters – such as the earthquake and tsunami in Japan – are horrible events…

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Christians must fight Mugabe’s defilement of their churches

by Tanonoka Joseph Whande SW Radio Africa One thing I appreciate about religion is that it is a personal thing between a believer, a worshipper…

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Jackson Subject of Gay Harassment Complaint: Asks for Oral Sex

Thursday, Apr 14, 2011 | Updated 6:15 PM CDT By BJ Lutz A former employee of the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. at the Rainbow Push…

Posted in Aristide/Preval Crime/Corruption DAILY REPORTS-Direct From Haiti Govt Incompentece

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH PUBLISHES BIZARRE 47 PAGE DOCUMENT DEMANDING PERSECUTION OF DUVALIER, WHILE OVERLOOKING PROSECUTION OF ARISTIDE & PREVAL

April 14, 2011 Reed Brody, spokesman for Human Rights Watch, based in New York, has authored a badly flawed study –  HAITI’S RENDEZVOUS WITH HISTORY:…

Posted in Earthquake/CHOLERA

Constant: Haiti’s Fiercest Flag Bearer

Photo by Katherine SmithMyrlande Constant is undoubtedly Haiti’s fiercest flag bearer. A (drapo Vodou) Vodou flag maker who has been refining her craft in the…

Posted in Earthquake/CHOLERA

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Uncovers Latin America’s African Roots in New Four-Part Series, Black in Latin America, Premiering Tuesday, April 19 at 8 p.m. on PBS

Black in Latin America is the 11th documentary from Professor Gates whose previous PBS projects include African American Lives 1 and 2, Oprah’s Roots, Looking…

Posted in Ag/Farming Earthquake/CHOLERA

Food prices: World Bank warns millions face poverty: IN HAITI THOUSANDS WILL DIE OF STARVATION

Prices of foodstuffs such as wheat have been hit by unrest in North Africa The World Bank has warned that rising food prices, driven partly…

Posted in Earthquake/CHOLERA

The Power of Music to Ignite Hope in Haiti

Dave Farrell/Peter Yeo: Port Au Prince, Haiti — As Haiti welcomes a new president, who also happens to be a musician, we started to think…

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Arcade Fire Blogs About Experiences in Haiti, Raising Money for Charity

Posted by Chad Webb on 04.13.2011 The Arcade Fire guitarist blogs about their time in Haiti… Arcade Fire’s guitarist Will Butler posted some blogs about…

Posted in Earthquake/CHOLERA Elections FRENCH/CREOLE Articles

Un autre gouvernement avant le 14 mai

La Nouvelliste: Un nouveau cabinet ministériel devrait être connu et opérationnel avant le 14 mai, date à laquelle le président sortant René Préval laissera sa…

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Construction underway at Mirebalais hospital in Haiti

The hospital is being built in cooperation with Boston-based aid organisation Partners in Health (PIH). The 320-bed hospital will replace an old hospital which is…

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Telecoms billionaire Denis O’Brien’s rules for success

Investors in places like Ivory Coast and Libya need thick skins and level heads, for when conflict rages and governments fall, they run the risk…

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Le palais national en voie de restauration

Des techniciens du Centre national des Equipements (CNE) sont à pied d’oeuvre au palais national dans des travaux de démolition des parties jugées « irrécupérables…

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RSF demande la réintégration rapide des trois journalistes révoqués à la TNH

La Nouvelliste: Trois journalistes révoqués de la Télévision Nationale d’Haïti sont poursuivis en justice par le directeur général de la chaîne d’Etat. Reporters sans frontières…

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Le choléra rebondit dans l’arrière-pays

Haïti: Alors que les autorités sanitaires annonçaient une nette régression de l’épidémie du choléra, 70 personnes ont été infectées en seulement huit jours à la…

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En attendant l’arrêt de la cour d’appel…

La Nouvelliste Haïti: Les avocats des parties au procès ont développé leurs moyens oraux, le mercredi 6 avril à la cour d’appel de Port-au-Prince. Me…

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Our View: Sweet Micky takes the stage in hard-hit Haiti-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth

The following editorial appeared in The Washington Post Among Haiti s curses in recent decades is the roster of scoundrels, tyrants, charlatans, opportunists and blowhards…

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Haiti cholera epidemic could have been blunted with use of mobile stockpile of oral vaccine

SEATTLE – Had a large stockpile of oral cholera vaccine been available and deployed to inoculate the majority of Haitians most at risk after the…