Haiti

Berger said Clinton was afraid that two campaign issues were about to blow up in his face: Haiti and gays in the military.

Haiti and Zimbabwe have both explored how much ruin there is in a nation over the past decade and show little sign of improving.

Nevertheless, Edmond Mulet, the United Nations' top official in Haiti, declared it "a fairly good election in many ways. "

She said she had spent a sleepless night on Tuesday, repeatedly dialing phone numbers in Haiti and getting no answer.

I mean, there may be 100 explanations for why Haiti is the impoverished nation it is, but there is no excuse to see that sort of squalor.

A Chinese body had been found among the rubble of a building here destroyed by Haiti's massive earthquake, Chinese rescuers say on Saturday.

Nearly a week after the Haiti earthquake struck, tens of thousands of victims are still waiting for aid, despite huge international efforts.

Another flow of environmental refugees comes from Haiti, where the land is denuded of vegetation and the soil is washing into the sea.

Right, things haudio-videoe worked so well for Haiti so far. GM seeds seem to function as a least of their worries.

There is a great sense of urgency in trying to get aid to those in need in Haiti, as more than death is feared.

He said the donors must make sure Haiti gets the money it needs when it needs it. And they must guarantee that the money is well spent.

Haiti is a very poor country. I'm sure many surrounding countries will lend aid to help these people recover from such a disaster.

It is not unusual for the U. S. military to respond to a disaster like the Haiti earthquake.

Right, things have worked so well for Haiti so far. GM seeds seem to be the least of their worries.

"Haiti's outbreak is arguably much more explosive than the epidemic case of Zimbabwe modelled in the paper, " he said.

He said he did not know how many more American troops might be needed to help keep Haiti secure, but stressed any U.

Mr. Ban said he is going to Haiti with a "very heavy heart. "

But he said the paper does not provide enough data to show that tsunamis in Haiti are 10 times more likely than previously estimated.

Medical workers in Haiti are now trying to spread the message not to use river water without some form of purification.

As the horrors in Haiti demonstrate, countries need a state of a certain size to work at all; and more government can be good.

Haiti needs at least $10m to assist victims and the quake will likely claim up to 100000 lives, said the International Red Cross.

Despite the best intentions of many around the world, including the former President himself, Haiti is still a basket case.

Another flow of environmental refugees comes from Haiti, where the land is denuded of vegetation and the soil os washing into the sea.

Back in New York, Ms Moore is preparing for the next book cycles, which will include children's stories in Haiti, Bolivia and Afghanistan.

Potable water is often in high demand and short supply following a natural disaster like the Haiti earthquake or Hurricane Katrina.

In the case of the Haiti quake, the Caribbean and North American plates slide past one another in an east-west direction.

It seemed, too, as if some of the lessons from other disasters that could have been applied in Haiti were being ignored.

He said in the next few weeks he would be leading a trade delegation to Haiti as part of that effort.

Describing it as a "catastrophe" , Haiti's envoyto the US said the cost of the damage could run into billions.

But Haiti was the only sending nation with which we had a personal connection.

George Clooney was one of the organisers of the two-hour Hope For Haiti Now event and said everyone needed to do what they could to help.

Tropical storm Isaac moved across the Caribbean over the weekend, one of the countries it hit there was Haiti.

The recent seismic event in Haiti heralds the beginning of the Chaotic Node we referred to in our last communication.

This seems to be happening in Haiti, too; MSF has again asked people to switch donations to its general fund.

Less than a week after the violent demonstrations, Haiti's prime minister was ousted in a vote of no confidence.

Water can be a problem, but luckily a water plant has been working [in Haiti], so we've been able to get a certain amount of water in there.

I suggested that we use their platform on the incoming text messages from Haiti to get a general sense of changing mood on an hourly basis.

Haiti's government is in no position to take charge, yet the country needs a strong government to put it to rights.

He said Haiti is one of many challenges now before world leaders.

Completely unrelated stuff might be part of the Twitter feed, i. e. a tweet about Haiti can be followed by something about Mongolia.

Aristide arrived in Haiti two days before the runoff but has kept a low profile so far and did not endorse a candidate.

Efforts like this could provide one way for Haiti, as it rebuilds, to renew the promise of its revolution.

The Brazilian government publicly declared that it would not hand over the baton of the UN troops in Haiti.

Chile was also luckier that the quake's epicentre was much deeper down in the earth than in Haiti, mitigating its destructive power.

A woman helps her husband wash up in a refugee camp in Leogane, Haiti.

She was thinking, she said, about the money she sends herfamily in Haiti.

We are still gathering information about this catastrophic earthquake, the point of impact, its effect on the people of Haiti.

A few dozen more were due to leave Haiti on a flight late Monday.

He's back in Haiti, trying to rebuild his school.

But it is doubtful whether such additional commitments will be made -- and kept -- as Haiti moves off the front pages.

Some Haitians were amazed Friday that an African-American CNN camerawoman did not speak Creole, the French-based native language in Haiti.

Many citizens, especially the young, have been leaving Gonaives in search of a better life in other parts of Haiti or abroad.

Jean-Louis and Hollywood Unites for Haiti are encouraging people looking to help to send money instead of goods at the moment.

I noticed that during the time of the Haiti quake, numerous small quakes were occurring all along the S American Plate edges.

It reminded me of the scene at Max Beauvoir's in Haiti, except these people believed they had been moved by Jesus.

It is the newest outpost of the United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti (known as MINUSTAH from its initials in French).

For now, Haiti is at least benefiting from the international attention.

A machete is Haiti's answer to the problem, and almost everybody seems to have one.

The first few days of a major disaster are always chaotic, but Haiti has presented unique logistical problems.

This is really a terrible moment for Haiti, but it's also an opportunityandtheina way, because there's so much attention and desire to help.

When it comes to doing business, "Haiti is probably the hardest place in the world right now outside maybe Afghanistan, " Mr. Scofield says.

In January, a powerful earthquake struck Haiti. It killed at least two hundred thirty thousand people and left millions of others homeless.

FAO's call for funding is part of a larger, UN-wide appeal for funds to help Haiti recover from the recent series of storms.

Haiti's government cannot rebuild the country. A temporary authority needs to be set up to do it.

Haiti's U. N. ambassador said the death toll in the revolt is now about 60, and the country faces "an abyss of civil war. "

After the recent earthquakes in Chile and Haiti, it is not surprising to see countries updating their disaster contingency plans.

The catastrophe: As if the political turmoil weren't bad enough, nature struck Haiti in2004 to devastating effect.

A few years later some Spanish sailors visited Darien and carried word back to Haiti that there was gold there.

"To someone just arrived from Haiti or Romania, Canada is a far more satisfying place to be a citizen than it was for me. "

The US was one of four members to abstain, along with Haiti, Israel and Palau.

This comes into its own after natural disasters like the Haiti earthquake in January, when journalists cannot get to the scene.

US troops are fanning out across Haiti as aid operations gather momentum, a week after the devastating earthquake.

Food, water, medicine, hope. all that and more is urgently needed after a powerful earthquake wrecked much of Haiti's capital on Tuesday.

Here is another example. Joe donated $20 to help people in Haiti after the earthquake, even though $20 was just a drop in the bucket.

Clinton said all of the medical supplies at the U. S. Embassy have been exhausted while helping Americans in Haiti and Haitian citizens.

November's election offers a chance to put Haiti's relations with its donors on a surer footing.

What was once a popular disease in Africa, America and Haiti is now a growing threat in Asia, Western Europe and Latin America.

It helps that the airport is just about open, and that Haiti is close to the United States.

What's more, charities raising money for Haiti right now are going to have to earmark that money to be spent in Haiti and in Haiti only.

At least eight people have been killed in floods triggered by heavy rain in Haiti, officials have said.

The actor Ben Stiller, who has accompanied Haggis to Haiti, recalls that Haggis once raised four and a half million dollars in two hours.

As the next President of Haiti, Martelly will have to tackle the cataclysmic aftereffects of the earthquake.

Who was an enthusiastic and uncritical guest of the dictatorships of Haiti and Albania, and the phalangists in Lebanon ?

But France and the United States have so far agreed only to no longer send Haitians back to Haiti.

"The entire structure of foreign aid must be overhauled" if rebuilding is to help, rather than hinder, Haiti's development, Mr Chancy said.

In the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake, there was a ton of spam with fake donation requests to help the people of Haiti.

Haiti District Judge Rosenthal said that after examining the evidence in this matter will be referred to the prosecution process.

But attempting to leave Haiti now will only bring more hardship to the Haitian people and nation.

They were all vegetarian, and understanding my difficulties in finding vegetarian food in Haiti, I was invited to share meals with them.

Haiti's rural areas, he said, mostly rely on water from polluted mountain streams. He talked about the health impact.

Isaacs says he tried to explain the answers in detail, and argued that the root of the problem lay in Haiti's lack of education.

Although he has said he won't re-enter politics, Mr Aristide's return is already causing waves in Haiti, as Andy Gallacher reports.

He says it is essential to help the children, the most vulnerable of the people of Haiti.

With access to the U. S. market through the HOPE II Act, Haiti can create jobs in its apparel and agriculture sectors.

The United States gives more to Haiti than any other country. But it ranks 11th in per capita giving.

To be effective, they must not waste the scarce resources of the government of Haiti and of local institutions.

This week the United Nations Security Council is set to renew the mandate of its peacekeeping mission in Haiti for an eighth year.

Our team consisted of two nurses, Terri and Anne Marie, and a psychiatrist, a kindly M. D from Haiti whom everybody called Dr. Paul.

Emergency aid operations certainly saved thousands, but all the aid agencies and all the money pledged cannot put Haiti together again.

MORE than a week after the earth convulsed beneath it, Haiti has still to plumb the depths of suffering and want.

Yesterday, former President Clinton gave a speech to a group from Haiti, and he urged them not to give up hope.

USA Today referenced some of these trends in their recent "More go online or text to donate for Haiti's quake victims" article.

If you want to find an up-to-date map of Haiti, then there is only one place to go.

Washington - To understand the ecological disaster that often occurs when forests are destroyed, one can start in Haiti.

Thanks in part to lifelong heavy drinking, the life expectancy for the average Russian man is now about 60 years, just below that of Haiti.

Haiti's current political in a "semi-vacuum" state, analysts believe that Duvalier's trip with a clear political intent.

A few reasons. First and most obvious, the construction in Chile is far better than construction in Haiti.

hurricane warnings for haiti , dominica republic and jamaica , as hurricane dean bears down on the caribbean islands.

Commentators on Chinese TV made much of how the Haiti sacrifice of the eight "heroes" was part of being "good global citizens. "

A massive earthquake hit Haiti a few days ago and has inflicted heavy casualties and property losses.

Hopefully something positive will come out of this tragedy in Haiti, that people will learn the hazards of earthquakes.

Hurricane warnings for Haiti , the Dominican Republic and Jamaica as Hurricane Dean bears down on the Caribbean islands.

They said the remains of the 19th Century vessel were on a reef off Haiti in the Caribbean.

Still, it might be too soon to determine China's intentions in Haiti, one Taiwan-based expert warned.

Haiti is in desperate need of more doctors and nurses to help it manage a cholera crisis that refuses to loosen its grip.

Well, not every way we can -- for one of the best ways to help Haiti is to allow some Haitians to move abroad.

The unusually high magnitude of Tuesday's quake for this region is part of the reason it has likely caused enormous damage to Haiti.

He had much influence with the king--so much, in fact that he was soon appointed governor of all the eastern part of Haiti.

Part of Mr. Clinton 's mandate as U. N. Special Envoy is to help encourage more private sector investment in Haiti .

Also, says Michel, Jean's inability to speak French, one of Haiti's official languages, puts him at a disadvantage.

And here in Haiti, everything is out of order at the moment still.

The Dominican Republic has detected its first case of cholera, following the outbreak of the disease in neighbouring Haiti last month.

A US aircraft carrier has arrived off the coast of Haiti to help co-ordinate the movement of supplies.

Yet they shared a common conviction, a belief in a better future for the people of Haiti, and a common resolve to help them build it.

Before the earthquake, Haiti and the United States had been working closely on plans for Haiti's sustainable growth and new opportunities.

Helping Haiti set up a benchmark of helpingstandards to be extended to other poor countries around the worldspecially in Africa.

Since last week, Hurricane Dean has been blamed for at least eight depths in Haiti, the Dominican Republic and the island of Dominica.

Conditions are terrible in Haiti and in the midst of the hardship and turmoil the evil that is Monsanto is trying to take advantage.

Lacking domestic fossil-fuel supplies, Haiti was spending some $500m a year importing them.

As you probably know, Haiti was struck by a devastating earthquake last night.

The United Nations says things may be improving, but the crisis in earthquake-devastated Haiti is far from over.

Military personnel dispatched from the ship by landing craft to the ground unloaded supplies in Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince.

In the immediate aftermath of the quake, a tsunami watchwas put out for Haiti, Cuba and the Bahamas, but this was later lifted.

In January, one of the deadliest earthquakes in history struck Haiti, already the poorest country in the Western hemisphere.

We are granting an additional $10 million to Haiti for feeding programs, and I understand others are looking to help.

I appreciate the solidarity shown in re-building Haiti's health infrastructure, virtually from scratch.

A woman stands in the rubble of her home the day after an earthquake hit Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Jan.

Peacekeeping officials say a battalion from the Dominican Republic could be in Haiti by the end of the week.

Gordon Brown also told his colleagues that Britain would be directly helping the civilian government in Haiti get back on its feet.

Sasha Kramer fights Haiti's most pressing health, economic, and environmental problems, one toilet at a time.

Port-au-Prince in Haiti ranked at the bottom of this table, Mercer said.

Experts say the political void compounded Haiti's problems, leaving the Caribbean country unable to sign foreign aid deals.

Mr. Obama has also asked former presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton to lead private fundraising efforts to help Haiti recover.

Haiti would not like to be described as its poor neighbour, but the contrast is stark.

A woman throws paper onto a fire burning in the middle of a street in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

The Bank official added that a concerted international effort and strong financial support will be required to rebuild Haiti.

Thank you for convening this meeting and briefing us on the latest developments of the earthquake and international relief efforts in Haiti.

That's enough to make a major difference for tens of thousands of hungry people in Haiti and other countries that need help.

But the Duvalier dynasty left Haiti with a legacy of corruption and poverty from which it has never recovered.

Fat-Tuesday. Haiti Carnival marks the beginning of one the holiest times of the year.

Rubble from destroyed houses in Port-au-Prince, Haiti sit on the remains of mattresses on the side of the road.

Even Haiti's Prime Minister, Jean-Max Bellerive, conceded to TIME recently that reform "has to be a part of Haiti's rebuilding process. "

Growing up, I absorbed those stories, heard a new version every year; adults around the dinner table speaking in creole about poor Haiti.

"Haiti" is not the area in general, there is a big, big you ban fen have such a big piece of the mat, there are 23 major subdivision.

Jiuzhaigou has 108 "haiti" of varying sizes and shapes , but of invariant limpidity to the bottom of the lakes .

Undoubtedly, Carnival in Haiti is one of the Caribbean's least known cultural treasures.

On the Security Council's regular programs work this month will be a debate on the U. N. 's peacekeeping mission in Haiti.

In Haiti, a death toll from a school collapse rises to at least 75 people with crews continuing the search for survivors.

The presence of thousands of United Nations' peacekeepers in Haiti has widened the international scope of the disaster.

Do you know Haiti and China are the same which suffered from Western interference and aggression?

Natural catastrophes seemed to be almost deliberately targeting the world's worst off, from the earthquake in Haiti to floods in Pakistan.

It is ridiculous to argue that leaving Haiti in the coming year or two "will only bring more hardship to the Haitian people and nation. "

Edwidge Danticat's stirring memoir of Haiti, Brother, I'm Dying, would not exist had her family not moved to New York City.

His desire to go to Haiti stems from his status as a Sichuan man, Chen said.

After the earthquake that rocked Haiti on Tuesday, games rallied to help pitch in by raising awareness and collecting donations.

Online giving during the first give days following September 11, 2001 was less than 1% of what was given towards Haiti relief.

In a scenario like the Haiti earthquakes, we needed to find information that was urgent across many differnt types of media quickly.

We did this bag for Haiti, and we launched it just a month after the earthquake to provide school meals for kids in Haiti.

But in Haiti, he went on, a culturally accepted form of child trafficking already exists.

Finally, Rose was granted a visa to leave Haiti, and Mallery went back to get her.

Haiti's TV, cell phone networks and radio stations were knocked off the air by the seismic jolt.

He also questions whether HIV arrived in 1966, pointing to retrospective studies in Haiti that did not find an AIDS case until 1978.

He plans to travel to Haiti next week to evaluate the fault zone and try to determine what happened during the quake.

Monsanto donated vegetable seeds to farmers in Haiti, to help increase food production and aid the country during its recovery.

Haiti's institutions need to be rebuilt as well as its buildings, with fundamental reform of inefficient and corrupt systems.

Instead, Haiti will have to start all over again, from even weaker beginnings.

In Haiti, at least 30 people are dead in the collapse of a school building.

Americans trying to locate family members in Haiti are encouraged to contact the State Department at (888) 407-4747.

By then I was a documentary-maker and I'd gone back to Haiti to make a film about it.

The major difficulty is to restore the communication of the southeast part of Haiti, there is no telephone and other correspondence system.

Nature is not the only force knocking Haiti back.

At Davos, the focus will be more on the private sector and how business can help Haiti over the long term by boosting investment.

The disease had not been seen in Haiti for decades, and many people don't know about it.

Over the weekend, the government of Haiti agreed to the departure of 165 orphans to the U. S. , a State Department official said.

Some help for all of you who are helping Haiti's earthquake victims and a new bill let you write off your donations this tax season.

The latest arrivals have come from the economically depressed areas of the Dominican Republic and Haiti.

Carnival in Jacmel is one of the most interesting cultural manifestations in Haiti and in Hispaniola.

Because the researchers were in Haiti for just 10 days, they weren't able to determine if the device helped patients heal faster.

The earthquake that rocked Haiti in January was no exception.

Haiti has never been found cholera epidemic, which is indeed a virus introduced from abroad.

Having opened its World Cup campaign by beating Argentina, Poland proved itself as World Cup dark horses with a thrashing of Haiti.

Mr. Ban says the rebuilding process in Haiti should be an exercise in nation-building on a scope and scale not seen in generations.

Haiti should be an unlikely backdrop for the latest failure of the humanitarian relief system.

Though humanitarian and development efforts are likely to continue, international actors cannot solve Haiti's most perplexing problems.

And it's been used most famously in Haiti in the aftermath of the earthquake.

ELECTIONS in Haiti have never been tidy affairs.

The rocketing cost of living has stoked social tensions, protests and violence from Morocco, Afghanistan and Vietnam to Haiti.

WHO does not recommend restrictions to international travel or trade due to the cholera outbreak in Haiti.

Fifthly, intellectual property would be included in the curriculum for secondary and higher education in Haiti.

October, Haiti and outbreaks of cholera, a few weeks spread across the country.

Massive relief efforts from the U. S. , other countries and the United Nations are arriving in Haiti.

Lessons from other disasters are not always relevant to Haiti.

Even the savviest of Haiti's presidents have had trouble with the legislature.

When he heard about the devastating earthquake in Haiti, he was at the Australian Open.

The city of Miami has a neighborhood known as Little Haiti. People who live there keep close ties to Haitian culture.

We went through this after the Haiti earthquake, and all of the arguments which applied there apply to Japan as well.

The French President Nicolas Sarkozy has promised 370 million dollars to help Haiti recover from last month's devastating earthquake.

Among the opportunities is to improve Haiti's energy infrastructure.

Cholera is endemic in Nepal whereas Haiti has not had a recorded cholera case in the last 50 years.

as for haiti , we finally yielded to its blackmail and agreed to resume our aid to the airport at port au prince.

In previous years, the U. N. Children's Fund has classified Haiti as a country in crisis.

Protests were reported in the cities of Hinche and Gonaives in Haiti's cholera-ravaged central region as well.

Accusations against the peacekeepers led to violent demonstrations in Haiti last month.

Haiti's agriculture is the least productive in the world, says Joel Boutroue of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

Due to lack of supplies, lack of effective control over the security situation in Haiti has begun looting and other criminal activities.

He told SciDev. Net that when he visited Haiti in August, refugees from the earthquake were using water directly from the river and ocean.

The UN mission to Haiti was decapitated with the collapse of the hotel where it was based.

Elsewhere, from Haiti to the Congo to East Timor, it would work with the United Nations to support lasting peace.

We are now working with Samasource and Crowdflower to have the translation work serve as a source of income for Haitians inside Haiti.

Concern about soaring food costs and limited supplies have toppled Haiti's government and caused riots in parts of Africa.

Since the end of January, the American Red Cross has raised $203 million for Haiti relief.

Rising food prices around the world already have led to food riots in some African nations and Haiti, and protests elsewhere.

Most recently, we've been tragically reminded of the destructive power of nature itself with the recent earthquake in Haiti.

Haiti's children, 45 percent of the population, are among the most disoriented and vulnerable of the survivors of the earthquake.

She didn't tell me much, but I knew Johnny had come to the Dominican Republic from Haiti in search of a better life.

The company also donates some proceeds from virtual goods to earthquake relief in Haiti and other causes .

Haiti's steep mountains combined with its tropical rainfall pose a threat for landslides.

This portal was also launched at the onset of the Haiti earthquake and utilized by relief organizations.

I was born in Haiti, so I grew up speaking French, and then at the age of five, we moved to New York City.

Disease-control experts from the United States confirmed the first cases of cholera in Haiti on October twenty-first in the Artibonite area.

As a result, the millions who live in south-western Haiti were open to the quake's full force when it reached the surface.

One example is the governor General of Canada , Michaell Jean , who came to Canada as a young child with her family from Haiti in 1968.

Some health experts were hopeful that they will be able to control the outbreak of cholera in impoverished Haiti.

Frank Thorp, the husband of an American aid worker in Haiti, described the scene on NBC television's Today program.

International relief agencies have appealed for emergency funds to help Haiti and other poor countries hit by food riots.

An earthquake in Haiti was a humanitarian disaster, killing at least 230, 000 people and leaving 1m homeless.

Our correspondent Laura Trevelyan is in Haiti's second biggest city, Leogane, where flooding remains a serious problem.

The White House also said $10 contributions can be charged to cell phone accounts by texting "HAITI" to "90999. "

But you don't have to save Africa, jump in front of bullets, or build homes in Haiti to put your mark on the world.

Aristide fled Haiti in late February, blaming U. S. pressure for forcing him from power.

With its healthy economy and strong government institutions, the country can respond in ways other countries, like Haiti, couldn't.

The United Nations has warned that the cholera epidemic in Haiti could affect many more people than previously believed.

Similar social protection-related budget support operations have since been implemented in Haiti, Madagascar, Sierra Leone, and Bangladesh.

News of this, the Haiti quake and now Chile make it seem Earth is becoming ever more active.

With a GNI per capita of a US$560, Haiti is the poorest nation in the western hemisphere.

Gordon Brown told the House of Commons that Britain had been deeply moved by the still unfolding tragedy on Haiti.

An investigation into the cholera epidemic in Haiti is reported it'll blame the United Nations peacekeepers from Nepal.

Given the short incubation period, explosive outbreaks, like the one we are seeing in Haiti, can occur when the warning system is weak.

Multi-way off the border farmers market caused strong resentment among the people of Haiti.

Cholera has been confirmed as the deadly disease spreading across central parts of Haiti.