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... drove local rice farmers out of business and incited a rural exodus that swelled the slums of Port-au-Prince.Today, more than 70 percent of Haitians live on less than $2 a day, and the U.S. rice that is the staple of their diet has doubled in price in little more than a year.Hungry people rioted in the capital last month, leaving at least six dead by the time President Rene Preval restored...
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 05/18/2008
The shanty towns found in the twisting gullies slicing through Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, are the poorest slums of the poorest country in the western hemisphere.
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worldwide-news.net (Free subscription) | 05/18/2008
The shanty towns found in the twisting gullies slicing through Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, are the poorest slums of the poorest country in the western hemisphere. Go to news source
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Tampa Bay Online (Free subscription) | 05/17/2008
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - More emergency food aid is on its way to Haiti. The U.S. government says that it will ship an additional $20 million in emergency food aid to the Caribbean country.
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Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Blog de Port-au-Prince draws attention to the fact that Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine, a prominent human rights worker and Famni Lavalas activist who has been missing since August 12, 2007, still has not been located.
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
... import, drove rice farmers out of business and incited a rural exodus that swelled the slums of Port-au-Prince.Today, more than 70 percent of Haitians live on less than $2 a day, and the U.S. rice that is the staple of their diet has doubled in price in little more than a year. Hungry hordes rioted in the capital last month, leaving at least six dead by the time President René Préval restored...
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Caribbean 360 (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Ericq Pierre has been rejected by the Haiti Parliament for the second time.PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, May 14, 2008 - President Rene Preval's choice for Haiti's Prime Minister has been rejected by the Parliament for the second time, less than a week after the Senate gave its overwhelming approval to the nominee.The Chamber of Deputies (the Lower House of Parliament) rejected 63-year-old economist,...
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Reporters sans frontières (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
... Luis Ortega and Charo Fernández, after their visit to Haiti, on 9 May 2008.Ortega was shot dead in Port-au-Prince on 7 March 2004, before the arrival in the country of the UN Stabilisation Mission in Haiti (Minustah) on 1st June 2004. The family also referred to an autopsy carried out in Spain which showed traces of projectiles in his body from heavy weapons fire used by the US marines.Reporters...
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worldwide-news.net (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haitian lawmakers rejected President Rene Preval's candidate for prime minister on Monday, undercutting his efforts to establish a stable democracy in the deeply impoverished Caribbean country. Go to news source
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OTB News (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Lawmakers rejected President Rene Preval's candidate for prime minister on Monday, undercutting his efforts to establish a stable democracy in the deeply impoverished Caribbean country. Share This
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Reuters (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Lawmakers rejected President Rene Preval's candidate for prime minister on Monday, undercutting his efforts to establish a stable democracy in the deeply impoverished Caribbean country.
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Reuters (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haiti's parliament rejected former Inter-American Development Bank adviser Ericq Pierre as the country's new prime minister on Monday, more than a month after violent protests over food prices that triggered the dismissal of his predecessor.
