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World Health Organization says people are at great risk of getting diarrhea, cholera and other water borne diseases because of the bad sanitary conditions and contaminated water. Lisa Schlein | Geneva 30 January 2010 A camp of makeshift tents sprawls
Voice 1 Welcome to Spotlight. Im Liz Waid. Voice 2 And Im Adam Navis. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand - no matter where in the world they live. Voice 1 A group of children are busy in Jac
AA: I'm Avi Arditti and this week on WORDMASTER: we meet two English teachers from Haiti. But first, an update on how schools are trying to reopen following the earthquake in January. VOA's Jeff Swicord was there as some students returned to classes
US, France Increase Troop Strength in Haiti Capital Jim Teeple U.S. and French troops in Haiti say they are increasing troop strength at friction points in the capital, Port-au-Prince . U.S. Marines t
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Spring is the time when farmers in Haiti plant about sixty percent of their crops. But this spring is a struggle with disaster. The January twelfth earthquake flattened much of Haiti's capital and s
IN THE NEWS - Haiti's Political Crisis By Cynthia Kirk Broadcast: Saturday, February 21, 2004 This is Steve Ember with In the News, in VOA Special English. Jean-Bertrand Arisitide The Organization of
By David Gollust The United States Tuesday condemned what it said is a campaign of political violence in Haiti by supporters of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide that is complicating flood-disas
UN Issues Urgent Appeal for Emergency Aid to Haiti Jim Teeple The United Nations on Tuesday issued an urgent appeal for emergency aid to Haiti to help Haitians who are affected by political turmoil .
The Haiti earthquake created a huge and urgent need for water, food, medicine and other services - a need that required an international governmental and private response. But the only organization with the kind of capability to deliver the magnitude
It s a major catastrophe for Haiti. We have gone through others before. I am quite sure the Haitian people, courageous as they are, will come out of it in unity. - Haitian ambassador to the US, Raymond Joseph Untold numbers of Haitians are dead, trap
More than 2,500 business, government and civil society leaders from more than 90 countries are expected to attend this year's World Economic Forum in the small Swiss alpine resort of Davos. Organizers of the meeting, which opens January 27, say the g
The devastation caused by the 7.0 magnitude earthquake only adds to Haiti's decades of trouble and turmoil. In January 1991, President Jean-Bertrand Aristide took office after winning Haiti's first democratic election in a landslide, only to be ouste
Aid workers in Haiti say earthquake relief efforts are starting to make an impact in Port-au-Prince. But frustration is mounting among Haitians who say they still have no access to food, water and medical treatment. Fresh water is being delivered to
U.S. President Barack Obama says the United States will do all it can to help the victims of the Haitian earthquake. American rescue teams have been dispatched to the disaster area. The president adds that the United States has launched a swift, aggr
U.S. officials say a trickle of international aid is reaching earthquake survivors in Haiti, but humanitarian needs far outpace delivery capabilities due to impassable roads, limited airlift capacity, and other challenges in the wake of last week's c
People sit in the Corail-Cesselesse camp for earthquake displaced people on outskirts of Port-au-Prince, Haiti (file photo) Haiti is marking six months since the powerful earthquake that killed more than 220,000 people and left Port-au-Prince and sur
Singer-activist's new song recalls January Haiti quake and the continuing bleak situation after six months Faiza Elmasry | Washington, DC 13 July 2010 Wyclef Jean in Haiti after the January 2010 earthquake It's been six months since a devastating ear
A US Army soldier gives a hand as women leave an aid distribution site carrying sacks of rice on their heads in Port-au-Prince, 01 Feb 2010 U.S. government agencies have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on rescue and relief efforts in Haiti, whi
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- Former Haitian President Jean Claude Baby Doc Duvalier, who returned from France to the country on Sunday, was detained on Tuesday, police said. Baby Doc, who was deposed in 1986 after popular uprisings, governed H
The United States has launched a major civilian and military response to the massive earthquake in Haiti, which has flattened buildings in much of the capital, and left a devastating toll of death and destruction. We have details of the American resc