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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: Mar 17, 2011
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AlterNet / By Arun Gupta :
The collision between natural hazards and human society and economy is what creates a disaster.
This century, barely out of the box, is already flush with mega-disasters: Hurricane...... [view]
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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: Mar 14, 2011
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Japan's powerful earthquake and tsunami have sustained possible economic damage of $60-120 billion, but recovery efforts could bring about GDP growth by 0.2-0.3 percentage points in 2011, Citigroup analysts said on Monday.
Kiichi Murashima, an analyst with Citigroup, said the...... [view]
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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: Apr 6, 2010
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By Clement Sabourin:
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP) -- She stopped, chanced a step, then two. But it still felt awkward and little Stephie clung obstinately to her crutches.
"She doesn't have enough strength in her other leg," said Fabianna Pierre, the mother of three-year-old girl, who...... [view]
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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: Mar 29, 2010
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By Pascal Fletcher:
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) -- Dressed in white, shaking decorated gourd rattles and singing praises to "Olorum Papa" (God the Father), several hundred practitioners of Haiti's voodoo religion held a public ceremony on Sunday to honor those killed in the January 12...... [view]
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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: Mar 22, 2010
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By Andrew Gully:
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP) -- Brilliant colors shine through the ruins of the Cathedrale de la Sainte-Trinite, fragments of wonderful murals that were the climax of Haiti's artistic explosion 60 years ago.
For gallery owner Toni Monnin, the loss of irreplaceable...... [view]
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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: Feb 8, 2010
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By Paula Bustamante:
CALLEBASSE, Haiti (AFP) -- "I would like to give up my son again," says Anchello Cantave, a farmer here, who willingly handed over his five-year-old to US missionaries now facing charges of child abduction in Haiti's post-quake chaos.
An hour outside of the...... [view]
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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: Feb 4, 2010
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By Clarens Renois:
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP) -- The death toll in the Haiti quake has swelled to 200,000, Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive said Wednesday as angry protests over the slow arrival of aid flared on the rubble-strewn streets.
More than three weeks after the 7.0-magnitude...... [view]
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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: Feb 2, 2010
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By Joseph Guyler Delva and Tom Brown:
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) -- It could take decades for Haiti to recover from last month's devastating earthquake, but the tragedy may provide the impoverished country a chance to rebuild "the right way," a top UN official said on Monday.
"This...... [view]
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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: Feb 1, 2010
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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - The African Union (AU) agreed on Sunday to consider a Senegalese proposal to resettle Haiti's earthquake homeless and possibly create a state for them in Africa.
Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade. AFP PHOTO
The idea was first floated by Senegalese President...... [view]
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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: Jan 31, 2010
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By Virginie Montet:
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP) -- Haiti's desperate earthquake survivors faced a new deadly threat Friday as the United Nations reported a rise in cases of diarrhea, measles and tetanus in squalid tent camps for victims.
A vast foreign aid effort is struggling to meet...... [view]
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