Haiti News http://www.topix.com/world/haiti http://www.topix.com/rss/world/haiti.xml News on Haiti continually updated from thousands of sources around the net. en-us Copyright 2008, Topix Topix http://www.topix.com/ http://www.topix.com/pics/topix_homepage_logo2.png Singer Wyclef Jean visits Port-au-Prince to promote youth programs http://www.topix.net/world/haiti/2007/11/singer-wyclef-jean-visits-port-au-prince-to-promote-youth-programs?fromrss=1 "If you want to change a country, unfortunately, you're not going to be able to help eight million people at one time"

Hip-hop artist Wyclef Jean arrived in Haiti Saturday for his first visit since President Rene Preval named him a roving ambassador for the Caribbean country in January. via The Spirit of Rock CHOM

]]> The Spirit of Rock CHOM Mon, 12 Nov 2007 02:48:49 GMT 0711114DFQBP 4 New UN Envoy Sees Long Haiti Mission http://www.topix.net/world/haiti/2007/11/new-un-envoy-sees-long-haiti-mission?fromrss=1 "The more you learn, the more you discover there is more to learn."

U.N. peacekeepers will likely remain in Haiti for several more years because the troubled Caribbean country is not close to managing its own security, the mission's new chief envoy said Thursday.

Hedi Annabi, in his first interview since assuming control of a 7,800-member U.N. force and hundreds of international staff in Haiti, told The Associated Press that the U.N. mission has made great strides, but will not seek to leave the volatile country anytime soon.

'The security situation is extremely fragile. And if we were to downsize dramatically there would be a vacuum that would be immediately backfilled by the same people that were there when we got started,' said Annabi, sitting in his office in the hills above Port-au-Prince. Read more

]]> The Associated Press Sun, 11 Nov 2007 02:29:08 GMT 0711108919P2 0 New Art Exhibition At VanGlen Gallery http://www.topix.net/world/haiti/2007/11/new-art-exhibition-at-vanglen-gallery?fromrss=1 VanGlen Gallery announces the opening of their new exhibit - Haiti: Where Life is Joy. via Westchester.com

]]> Westchester.com Sat, 10 Nov 2007 17:18:05 GMT 071110BO4R4T 0 32 killed in leak at China mine; 3 others missing http://www.topix.net/world/haiti/2007/11/32-killed-in-leak-at-china-mine-3-others-missing?fromrss=1 "One hundred percent of all the crops and agricultural fields have been lost because of the flooding"

A gas leak killed 32 miners Thursday in southwest China, and three others were missing and presumed dead, a government official said. via Carlsbad Current-Argus

]]> Carlsbad Current-Argus Sat, 10 Nov 2007 09:04:26 GMT 071110D1ETS0 0 Floods Continue To Cause Havoc In Haiti http://www.topix.net/world/haiti/2007/11/floods-continue-to-cause-havoc-in-haiti?fromrss=1 Just as some of the displaced were starting to return to their homes after severe flooding a month ago, Haiti was once again pounded with heavy rain from Tropical Storm Noel. via MediLexicon

]]> MediLexicon Sat, 10 Nov 2007 02:03:34 GMT 0711099F5PCS 0 Exile's life unravels after illegal vote http://www.topix.net/world/haiti/2007/11/exiles-life-unravels-after-illegal-vote?fromrss=1 In January 2002, a federal grand jury indicted Vandamme Jeanty on charges of voting illegally, possessing a false Florida birth certificate and fraudulent Social Security number to procure federal student ... via The Miami Herald

]]> The Miami Herald Fri, 09 Nov 2007 17:19:29 GMT 071109EHP675 0 UN defends its conduct at Haitian storm shelter; Haitian police investigate http://www.topix.net/world/haiti/2007/11/un-defends-its-conduct-at-haitian-storm-shelter-haitian-police-investigate?fromrss=1 "At that moment we had complete, absolute control"

November 8, 2007 - The United Nations on Thursday defended the conduct of its peacekeepers at a storm shelter from accusations they abandoned evacuees to roving gangsters. via WLS-TV Chicago

]]> WLS-TV Chicago Fri, 09 Nov 2007 08:32:14 GMT 071109RV9OM2 0 New England braces for remnants of Hurricane Noel, blamed for deaths in Caribbean http://www.topix.net/world/haiti/2007/11/new-england-braces-for-remnants-of-hurricane-noel-blamed-for-deaths-in-caribbean?fromrss=1 High wind and heavy surf hit parts of the Northeast U.S. coast on Saturday as the remnants of Hurricane Noel blustered northeastward across the open Atlantic. via PR-inside.com

]]> PR-inside.com Fri, 09 Nov 2007 02:07:20 GMT 071108JBV5O2 0 Country profile: Haiti http://www.topix.net/world/haiti/2007/11/country-profile-haiti?fromrss=1 The world's first black-led republic and the first Caribbean state to achieve independence, Haiti's pride has been dented by decades of poverty, environmental degradation, violence, instability and dictatorship ... via BBC

]]> BBC Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:07:04 GMT 071108E8F4SN 0 New Haitian Cops Get Training From UN Officers http://www.topix.net/world/haiti/2007/11/new-haitian-cops-get-training-from-un-officers?fromrss=1 Thursday, 8 November 2007, 10:45 am Press Release: United Nations New Haitian police recruits receive training from UN officers More than 600 newly inducted Haitian national police recruits will form a unit ... via Scoop

]]> Scoop Thu, 08 Nov 2007 07:38:47 GMT 071107274U5M 0 Gunmen spray bullets at Haitian TV-radio station, injuring bystander http://www.topix.net/world/haiti/2007/11/gunmen-spray-bullets-at-haitian-tv-radio-station-injuring-bystander?fromrss=1 "We thought it was just regular shooting"

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti : Gunmen fired automatic weapons on a TV and radio station in Haiti's capital, injuring a street vendor, police said Wednesday. via International Herald Tribune

]]> International Herald Tribune Thu, 08 Nov 2007 02:33:44 GMT 071107RUU84T 0 Haiti Hopes Jatropha Will Fuel Economy http://www.topix.net/world/haiti/2007/11/haiti-hopes-jatropha-will-fuel-economy?fromrss=1 "It [jatropha] has the potential, because it can be grown virtually anywhere, of creating a really positive economic impact in rural Haiti"

Haiti hopes jatropha will fuel an alternative energy boom that may help cut the impoverished country's reliance on oil and charcoal. via China Confidential

]]> China Confidential Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:00:01 GMT 071107GUEJL4 29 HAITI: Treatment centre reports rising sexual violence and HIV http://www.topix.net/world/haiti/2007/11/haiti-treatment-centre-reports-rising-sexual-violence-and-hiv?fromrss=1 "In 90 percent of cases, the victims come to get screened for HIV because they are scared. If they thought we couldn't prevent HIV infection, they wouldn't come."

Apart from HIV, sexual violence against women in Haiti is another virus that has so far proved resistant to a cure. via PlusNews.org

]]> PlusNews.org Wed, 07 Nov 2007 12:00:32 GMT 071107BI5TKC 0 Topangans Create Home for AIDS Orphans in Haiti http://www.topix.net/world/haiti/2007/11/topangans-create-home-for-aids-orphans-in-haiti?fromrss=1 "I'm not a believer in orphanages"

A mere 90-minute flight away from "the happiest place on earth," a bright-eyed little girl named Youseline enters a pink and baby blue French colonial style building that she now will call home. via Messenger

]]> Messenger Wed, 07 Nov 2007 01:36:02 GMT 071106C80JQT 0 In pictures: Tropical Storm Noel - Haiti & Rep. Dominican http://www.topix.net/world/haiti/2007/11/in-pictures-tropical-storm-noel-haiti-rep-dominican?fromrss=1 Tropical Storm Noel has caused floods and mudslides as it lashed Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

]]> Tue, 06 Nov 2007 04:53:59 GMT 071105866VKO 1 Haiti-Inondations : Debut de mobilisation de l'aide internationale http://www.topix.net/world/haiti/2007/11/haiti-inondations-debut-de-mobilisation-de-laide-internationale?fromrss=1 Politique de reproduction Les textes d'AlterPresse peuvent Aatre reproduits, en tout ou en partie, gratuitement, A condition d'indiquer clairement la source, avec lien actif vers notre site.

]]> Tue, 06 Nov 2007 04:42:31 GMT 071105VT3FU9 0 La tempete Noel aurait tue huit haitiens en Republique Dominicaine http://www.topix.net/world/haiti/2007/11/la-tempete-noel-aurait-tue-huit-haitiens-en-republique-dominicaine?fromrss=1 Une information non encore confirmee annoncee par deux compatriotes qui se disent scandalises par l'indifference de l'ambassade d'Haiti a Santo Domingo ; une attitude largement commentee dans la presse ...

]]> Tue, 06 Nov 2007 04:40:29 GMT 07110543QRFJ 0 Haiti storm survivors say government has abandoned them http://www.topix.net/world/haiti/2007/11/haiti-storm-survivors-say-government-has-abandoned-them?fromrss=1 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti : Residents of a notorious Haitian slum lashed out at local authorities Monday for abandoning them in the recovery from Tropical Storm Noel, and said U.N. troops and Haitian officials ...

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