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Dial Red for Recovery

Two cell-phone companies in Haiti have outshone the government, the NGOs, and the international community in reconstructing post-earthquake Haiti. How — and why — did…

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12 Janvier 2011: Trêve générale Pour commémorer le 12 Janvier dans la Paix et la Dignité

Au nom de tous les  morts,  Au nom de toutes les victimes du 12 Janvier 2010. Au nom de toutes les familles de tous les…

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Le dernier carnet

Les invités de Préval, en l’occurrence les membres de l’OEA,  ont déposé sur son bureau ce lundi midi, 10 janvier 2011, le  fameux document tant…

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Think Tank Report: Haiti’s Election “Fatally Flawed”

by Georgianne Nienaber Today, Sunday January 9,The Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) has released a report of its independent recount of vote tally…

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A year later, Haiti’s recovery gridlocked Haiti remains a bleak moonscape, its recovery slowed by political paralysis and a lack of dollars.

BY JIM WYSS AND JACQUELINE CHARLES jwyss@MiamiHerald.com PORT-AU-PRINCE — Jenny-Carls Joseph dreams of going home. But home is a nightmare of broken concrete and twisted…

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‘Massive irregularities’ detected in Haiti presidential vote

PORT-AU-PRINCE— From Monday’s Globe and Mail Published Sunday, Jan. 09, An independent review of Haiti’s controversial presidential vote suggests the results should not be salvaged…

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Sean Penn’s yearlong project turns Haiti golf course into camp for 55,000

By STEPHEN GALLOWAY Jan 9, 2011 02:38AM PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti—Actor Senn Penn’s mud-splattered SUV lurches through a hilly slum here, ironically named Bel Air. Half-naked children…

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Critics question funds raised for Haiti

BY FRANCES ROBLES frobles@MiamiHerald.com Second of three parts. Read part one: Haiti’s recovery gridlocked PORT-AU-PRINCE — Wearing orange rubber gloves and a straw hat, Marie…

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12 Janvier 2011: Trêve générale Pour commémorer le 12 Janvier dans la Paix

Au nom de tous les  morts,  Au nom de toutes les victimes du 12 Janvier 2010. Au nom de toutes les familles de tous les…

Posted in Elections FRENCH/CREOLE Articles

Le Conseil Electoral Provisoire (CEP) PROCLAME, le citoyen René PREVAL, Président de la République d’Haïti, pour une durée de cinq années, de sa prestation de serment au 7 février 2011.

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US may support throwing out disputed Haitian vote

By BRADLEY KLAPPER The Associated Press Friday, January 7, 2011; 4:36 PM WASHINGTON — The Obama administration said Friday it could support throwing out the…

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Haiti earthquake one year on: the lost generation

In the dim late afternoon light, seeping through an upstairs window, the scars of ant bites are clearly visible on the back of a small…

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Haiti’s year of living dangerously

Haiti’s earthquake was one of the deadliest natural disasters suffered by mankind in modern times Haitian journalist Andy Limontas looks back on a year in…

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Haiti-Elections: Send this mission packing

The failure of the OAS-Caricom mission… Wednesday 5 January 2011 By James Morrell * Submitted to AlterPresse The electoral crisis that has now prompted the…

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Haiti to get cholera vaccination

THE World Health Organization will start vaccinating in April to help stem the cholera epidemic in Haiti, which has killed over 3300. The vaccine hasn’t…

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Dying inmate released from Broward prison to hospice

Betsie Gallardo. Photo courtesy of the family.  BY DANIEL CHANG dchang@MiamiHerald.com A 27-year-old Haitian-born woman dying of cancer in a Broward state prison will be…

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Haïti. Ripailles de ripoux

Liberation.fr/ Mercredi 05 janvier 2011 Haïti. Ripailles de ripoux grand angle En 2008, à Port-de-Paix, des policiers et des magistrats tombent sur le magot d’un…

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CHOLERA: AN EPIDEMIC – OR GENOCIDE? INTERNATIONAL INDIFFERENCE AND INCOMPETENCE WILL KILL OVER 100,000

January 12 marks the first anniversary of Haiti’s great earthquake, and the end of the worst year in the country’s history, which is saying something….

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First calls made over Natcom mobile network

Vietnamese telco Viettel has revealed in a press release that its subsidiary in Haiti, National Telecom (Natcom, formerly Teleco), successfully completed its first international voice…

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Protests mark Haiti Independence anniversary

In his Independence message, President Préval warned that the political impasse, the earthquake that hit a year ago, and the ongoing cholera outbreak have put…