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Former U.S. President Clinton has been tapped as a United Nations special envoy to Haiti, a senior U.N. official said Monday.
Roudeline Lamy was 23 when she was shot in the stomach. The impact of the bullet sent the small baby she was holding tumbling to the ground.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on the international community Tuesday to commit dollars and manpower to help Haiti recover from a year of hurricanes and food riots.
From victims of gunshot wounds and domestic violence to common road injuries, Trinite Hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti is inundated with trauma cases daily.
Haitian and international search-and-rescue officials told reporters Monday that they have done all they can to ensure no survivors remain under the rubble of a school that collapsed last week.
Rescue officials said Monday they don't expect to find any more survivors at a Haitian school that collapsed last week, indicating efforts will now be focused on recovering bodies.
Frantic relatives of people believed trapped in the rubble of a collapsed school picked at the ruins with shovels and hammers Sunday before being pushed back by police amid new safety concerns.
The death toll rose to 84 Saturday night in the collapse of a Haitian school as international aid crews continued sifting through the wreckage, a local journalist said Saturday night.
The death toll from a string of hurricanes and tropical storms in Haiti has risen to nearly 800 people, an official with the Haitian Red Cross says.
I have just returned from my latest trip as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. Once again I found myself in one of the world's poorest countries; once again I held children with stick limbs and distended bellies.
Former U.S. President Clinton has been tapped as a United Nations special envoy to Haiti, a senior U.N. official said Monday.
Roudeline Lamy was 23 when she was shot in the stomach. The impact of the bullet sent the small baby she was holding tumbling to the ground.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on the international community Tuesday to commit dollars and manpower to help Haiti recover from a year of hurricanes and food riots.
From victims of gunshot wounds and domestic violence to common road injuries, Trinite Hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti is inundated with trauma cases daily.
Haitian and international search-and-rescue officials told reporters Monday that they have done all they can to ensure no survivors remain under the rubble of a school that collapsed last week.
Rescue officials said Monday they don't expect to find any more survivors at a Haitian school that collapsed last week, indicating efforts will now be focused on recovering bodies.
Frantic relatives of people believed trapped in the rubble of a collapsed school picked at the ruins with shovels and hammers Sunday before being pushed back by police amid new safety concerns.
The death toll rose to 84 Saturday night in the collapse of a Haitian school as international aid crews continued sifting through the wreckage, a local journalist said Saturday night.
The death toll from a string of hurricanes and tropical storms in Haiti has risen to nearly 800 people, an official with the Haitian Red Cross says.
I have just returned from my latest trip as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. Once again I found myself in one of the world's poorest countries; once again I held children with stick limbs and distended bellies.
The U.N. World Food Program's director flew to a Haitian city still encased in mud Friday to draw global attention to the ongoing disaster that has enormously complicated the country's struggle to feed itself
Four major storms have raked the desperately poor country of Haiti in the past month, leaving at least 341 people dead.
Hurricanes have devastated the country least able to cope, posing an epic challenge to its troubled political class
U.N. peacekeepers and aid groups struggled to feed thousands of Haitians left hungry by Tropical Storm Hanna, but had yet to reach thousands even as powerful Hurricane Ike approached the nation
A ship carrying U.N. relief supplies, including food and water, arrived Friday in the hurricane-ravaged Haitian city of Gonaives, an official with the United Nations' World Food Programme said.
Families clutched mattresses, chairs and other belongings and slogged through waist-high floodwaters Tuesday as Tropical Storm Hanna killed at least 13 people in northern Haiti
Hurricane Hanna slumped to tropical storm strength while grinding away at the Bahamas and other Atlantic islands on Tuesday, while also threatening the U.S. East Coast
Tropical Storm Gustav left 22 dead in Haiti and the Dominican Republic before it pulled away from the countries Wednesday, officials said.
Gustav swirled toward Cuba on Wednesday after triggering flooding and landslides that killed at least 11 people in the Caribbean
Hurricane Gustav weakened to a tropical storm as it aimed for Caribbean waters Tuesday evening after crossing onto Haiti's southern peninsula as a Category 1 storm that killed at least one person.
Tropical Storm Gustav continued on its path toward Haiti and the central Caribbean on Monday and threatened to reach hurricane strength before landfall, the National Hurricane Center said.
Haitians were told to prepare for evacuations as Tropical Storm Gustav formed quickly in the Caribbean
A man once convicted of heading up a ruthless Haitian death squad that is blamed for raping and killing political rivals has been convicted of carrying out a mortgage fraud scheme in the United States.
After soaring food prices led to deadly Haitian riots in April, the U.S. and the U.N. promised millions of dollars in aid to poor families. But three months later, only a fraction of a key U.S. food pledge has been distributed
Violence in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince is holding back the nation's dreams of building a viable tourism industry, despite its success in neighboring Caribbean nations
The World Food Programme on Monday appealed to the international community for money to support its operations in Haiti, where at least four people have died during two days of rioting over the price of food.
Riots from Haiti to Bangladesh to Egypt over the soaring costs of basic foods have brought the issue to a boiling point and catapulted it to the forefront of the world's attention, the head of an agency focused on global development said Monday.
After days of violent protests, Brazilian soldiers took advantage of a calm Tuesday to hand out food in a Haitian slum
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Food protests in Haiti ended Thursday as police cleared the streets of roadblocks and demonstrators abandoned their barricades.
A "near-famine" sparked by spiraling world food prices drives desperate citizens of the hemisphere's poorest nation to riot
Haiti posted tropical storm warnings along its entire coastline and Cuba placed much of its eastern end under similar advisories Sunday as Tropical Storm Noel gained strength in the Caribbean Sea, forecasters reported.
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Little is simple in Haiti, not even boiling water.
Crowds of supporters celebrated in the streets of Haiti's capital Thursday after the country's electoral council declared former President Rene Preval the winner of last week's presidential election.
Election workers in Haiti on Wednesday counted votes that will determine the new president and parliament of the impoverished Caribbean nation.
Under the close watch of thousands of police and U.N. peacekeepers, Haitians flocked to -- and at times, overwhelmed -- polling places to cast ballots for the first time in six years for president and members of parliament.
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Haiti's electoral board on Friday again postponed the country's first elections since President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was ousted in a rebellion almost two years ago.
More than 350 detainees escaped from Haiti's largest prison Saturday afternoon, after armed masked men in two vans broke through barricades and attacked the facility, according to police and eyewitness reports.
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Gunshots were exchanged Wednesday outside Haiti's presidential palace in Port-au-Prince as U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell held meetings there, U.S. State Department officials said.
Rights group Amnesty International on Thursday condemned what it said were summary executions by police, serious human rights abuses and an alarming number of illegal detentions in Haiti.
The city was knee-deep in mud, bodies still lay decomposing on waste ground. Homes were wrecked and lives shattered. But in the week we were in Gonaives, I didn't see anybody cry.
Blood swirled in knee-deep floodwaters as workers stacked bodies outside the hospital morgue.
At least 500 people have died after tropical storm Jeanne flooded Haiti last week, a U.N. spokesman has said, with the toll expected to rise as waters recede.
Tropical Storm Jeanne has pummeled the north coast of Haiti, killing 54 people and leaving another 150 unaccounted for, a U.N. spokesman said Sunday.
Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide has arrived in South Africa to a red-carpet welcome, greeted by the country's President Thabo Mbeki and diplomatic representatives of several other African nations.
South Africa's main opposition party has called the decision to grant Haiti's ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide temporary asylum a "mistake" and questioned the cost to South African taxpayers.
Forecasters are expecting more rain Friday in the flood-soaked regions of the Dominican Republic and Haiti, where high waters have killed hundreds of people and left thousands more homeless.
The United States and Canadian forces are struggling to assess the scope of a disaster following days of rain in Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
At least 363 people have been killed in floods in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, officials in the two neighboring Caribbean countries say.
U.S. federal agents have arrested Haiti's former national police chief in Miami, as part of the Drug Enforcement Administration's ongoing investigation into drug trafficking in the Caribbean nation, according to a DEA spokesman and court documents.
Haiti's new government has underscored its commitment to justice. "The fight against impunity will be a top priority for us," said interim Justice Minister Bernard Gousse when I met him a few weeks ago. "We're planning to investigate human rights abuses, killings, and the pilfering of the state treasury."
After a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, the leader of Haiti's interim government said Monday that general elections will be held next year to set up a new democracy.
U.S. Ambassador James Foley on Monday passed the word to Provisional Prime Minister Gerard LaTortue that his superiors in the Bush administration were not happy about language used by the head of Haiti's new government. LaTortue refers to his country's rebels as "freedom fighters."
Haiti is the Western Hemisphere's poorest country. But with the departure of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, it is becoming clear how much money both he and his chief foe, the Bush Administration, spent not on alleviating that poverty but on politicking against each other.
Haiti's newly designated prime minister said Wednesday that the nation's army was disbanded unconstitutionally by now-exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and he will appoint a commission to examine its re-establishment.
Jean-Bertrand Aristide, president of Haiti until Sunday, has ceded power. Pressed to resign by the U.S. and French governments, and facing a threatened rebel assault on Port-au-Prince, Aristide was flown out of the country early Sunday morning.
Supporters of Haitian rebel leader Guy Philippe burned paintings from the country's former army headquarters as Philippe declared himself the country's new police chief and threatened to arrest Prime Minister Yvon Neptune.
Political turmoil continued in Haiti late Wednesday as Prime Minister Yvon Neptune declared a state of emergency and announced the formation of a commission to oversee security in the turbulent nation.
Supporters of Haitian rebel leader Guy Philippe burned paintings from the country's former army headquarters Tuesday as Philippe declared himself the country's new police chief and threatened to arrest Prime Minister Yvon Neptune.
Greeted by hundreds of cheering supporters, heavily armed Haitian rebels drove into Port-au-Prince on Monday, entering the headquarters of the national police, the stronghold of supporters of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
Democratic Rep. Charles Rangel of New York said Sunday the United States is just as responsible for President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's ouster as the rebels who forced him from office.
The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Sunday night to send a multinational peacekeeping force to Haiti for up to three months.
As rebel-fueled turmoil continues to wrack Haiti, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell is calling upon embattled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to do what's best for his people.
While the Caribbean Community warned of that a humanitarian crisis and "sheer anarchy and chaos" are imminent in Haiti, embattled Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide vowed to remain in office amid a growing revolt and calls for him to step down.
The United Nations Security Council is to hold an urgent meeting to discuss the turmoil in Haiti as the U.S. Coast Guard begins intercepting refugee boats.
Caribbean countries called on the United Nations Thursday to dispatch a multinational force to restore order in Haiti, with Jamaica's foreign minister warning that a humanitarian crisis and "sheer anarchy and chaos" are imminent.
French officials have called for the "immediate" creation of an international civilian peace force to restore order to Haiti.
Opposition leaders in Haiti have delayed a decision on whether to back a U.S.-supported peace plan for Haiti, and are to meet Wednesday to draw up a counterproposal.
A team of 50 Marines arrived in the Haitian capital Monday to help protect the U.S. Embassy and its staff against possible rebel attack.
Haiti's government sent reinforcements to Cap Haitien after rebels seeking to oust President Jean-Bertrand Aristide moved into the country's second-largest city Sunday, storming police headquarters and freeing prisoners.
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide said Saturday that he has accepted all conditions of a peace plan presented to him by an international delegation, but opposition leaders appeared unwavering in their refusal to go along with any such deal.
A multinational team including delegates from the United States, France and other governments is expected Saturday in Haiti in an effort to end a bloody rebellion against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
A multinational team will travel to Haiti Saturday to discuss a plan to calm the turbulence there, a senior State Department official announced Thursday as Americans were urged to leave Haiti as soon as possible.
Police and armed supporters of embattled Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide manned barricades in Cap Haitien Wednesday, fearing rebels who have taken over other towns were headed their way.
An uprising in Haiti has intensified with rebels killing the police chief and two of his bodyguards in the town of Hinche before driving the rest of the police force from the town, local radio reports said.
International concern is growing about a rebel bid in Haiti to oust President Jean-Bertrand Aristide that has left more than 50 people dead.
With Haiti wracked by civil unrest, the United States urged Americans Tuesday to leave the country "if they can do so safely."
Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide returned to Port-au-Prince Saturday night after a daylong meeting with international leaders in an effort to resolve Haiti's latest political crisis.
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