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Ex-Haiti rebel leader wanted in US arrested during talk show

USA TODAY - ‎1 hour ago‎
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - A former rebel leader who is wanted on U.S. drug charges, and was recently elected to the Haitian Senate, was arrested Thursday as he appeared on a live radio talk show. Guy Philippe was being interviewed on the show with ...
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Little Haiti will be South Florida's hottest neighborhood in 2017, report says

Miami Herald - ‎13 hours ago‎
The Little Haiti area will be South Florida's hottest residential neighborhood in 2017, even as the wider region cools down, according to a report released Thursday by real estate website Zillow.
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Haiti: Jovenel Moise confirmed winner of presidential election

Yahoo News - ‎10 hours ago‎
Haitian businessman Jovenel Moise has been officially declared winner of November's presidential election. Mr Moise, a 48-year-old banana exporter, was elected with 55.6% of the vote, well ahead of his closest rival, an electoral tribunal confirmed ...
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Haiti: Jovenel Moise confirmed as new president

Aljazeera.com - ‎Jan 4, 2017‎
Jovenel Moise has been declared the winner of Haiti's November 20 presidential election, ending a protracted electoral process that has paralysed the Caribbean country's politics for more than a year.

Dependency in Haiti replaced with sustainability

Mission Network News - ‎7 hours ago‎
Haiti (MNN) - Haiti is caught in a painful rotation: disaster, donation, dependency. Each new tragedy, the most recent being Hurricane Matthew, demands of Haiti what little it has. Relief funds flood into the nation as long as the disaster is still ...

Response to January 12th 2010 Earthquake - Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) Haiti Round 28 - Dec 2016

ReliefWeb - ‎5 hours ago‎
On January 12th 2010, an earthquake of 7.0 magnitude hit Haiti, resulting in the destruction of more than 300,000 buildings and the displacement of 1.5 million people.
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Report: Food stocks low in southern Haiti in wake of storm

Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier - ‎Jan 4, 2017‎
FILE - In this Oct. 10, 2016 file photo, banana and coconut trees are bent and broken along a southern coast road near the town of Roche-a-Bateau, Haiti, left behind by Hurricane Matthew. Hundreds of thousands of people in southern Haiti are facing ...

Witness Says Ex-Haiti Rebel Leader Guy Philippe Wanted on US Drug Charges Is Arrested in Capital

ABC News - ‎15 hours ago‎
Witness Says Ex-Haiti Rebel Leader Guy Philippe Wanted on US Drug Charges Is Arrested in Capital. By The Associated Press. PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Jan 5, 2017, 4:29 PM ET. 0 Shares. Email. Star. 0 Shares. Email. Witness says ex-Haiti rebel leader ...
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Haiti's historical legacy of suffering

Trinidad & Tobago Express - ‎Jan 4, 2017‎
On January 1, 1804, ex-slaves in Haiti defeated mighty Europe, that is, French General Napoleon Bonaparte who then commanded the most powerful army in Europe.

Small Warrenton company helping Haitian villagers

Fauquier Now - ‎Jan 4, 2017‎
To many here and in his part of Haiti, Mr. Annuel embodies the potential for progress in the Caribbean nation of 10.6 million people.

3D printing prosthetics for amputees in Haiti

3D Printing Industry - ‎Jan 4, 2017‎
Haiti has large number of amputees as a result of an earthquake in 2010. Having been injured in the earthquake many of the victims were not immediately given medical attention and by the time they were seen amputation was required.

Top Stories: Obama Works To Save The ACA; Haiti Gets A President-Elect

NPR - ‎Jan 4, 2017‎
Good morning, here are our early stories: - Obama Makes A Last-Ditch Effort For His Signature Health Care Law. - Israeli Soldier Convicted Of Manslaughter For Killing Wounded Palestinian.

Jovenel Moise clinches Haiti presidency, poll fraud ruled out

Daily Mail - ‎16 hours ago‎
Jovenel Moise clinches Haiti presidency, poll fraud ruled out. Jovenel Moise promises no corruption in his victory speech after winning the Haitian presidency in the first round. Panasonic reveals futuristic concept for... Read More · 1:22min · Giant ...

Ex-Haiti rebel leader nabbed at talk show

Geelong Advertiser - ‎13 hours ago‎
Authorities in Haiti and Philippe's lawyer could not immediately be reached for comment. Philippe recently won election to the Senate representing a district in southern Haiti but had not yet been sworn into office. He is wanted on drug-trafficking ...

Hand To Hand Reaching Out To Haiti

Cheshire Herald - ‎Jan 3, 2017‎
Medical supplies (some will be sent to Hand to Hand for Haiti's clinic in Carrefour-des-pères for ongoing needs); furniture, clothes (for hot weather), shoes, hygiene items, eye drops, toothpaste & toothbrushes; roofing steel (corrugated galvanized ...

Haiti observes 214th anniversary of political independence

Jamaica Observer - ‎Jan 2, 2017‎
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti (CMC) - Haiti marked the 214th anniversary of its political independence, acknowledging that after so many years “we are still unable to feed our people, educate our children, provide health care to our compatriots, and rebuild ...

Photos: This dirty job shows why cholera still kills in Haiti

Madison.com - ‎Jan 3, 2017‎
22, 2016 photo, Auguste Augustin, a "bayakou", or human waste cleaner, balances himself at the top of a pit latrine ready to receive human waste from a coworker, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Haiti still relies mostly on crude methods of waste disposal ...

The beauty and mystery of voodoo in Haiti

The Boston Globe - ‎Dec 29, 2016‎
Although it's been long associated with the dark and dreadful, voodoo is very much a celebration of life and nature. And just like there's another side to the age-old religion, there's a vibrancy to life in Haiti that's been overshadowed by its ...
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Hunger in Haiti 3 Months After Hurricane Matthew

Kansas City infoZine - ‎21 hours ago‎
People in the South and Grande Anse departments on the southern peninsula of Haiti are particularly at risk. A very poor harvest is expected in January and February as Matthew wiped out 80 per cent of crops, drowned most livestock, destroyed critical ...
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Photos: Hurricane Matthe​w's destructive path

KETV Omaha - ‎Jan 4, 2017‎
People wade through a street flooded by a nearby river overflowing from the heavy rains caused by Hurricane Matthew, in Leogane, Haiti, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016. Rescue workers in Haiti struggled to reach cutoff towns and learn the full extent of the ...
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