November 24, 2010
Categories: Medicine and Health, United Nations
Tags: cholera, Port Au Prince, United Nations
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI – Protesters throwing rocks and bottles lashed out against the Haitian government and United Nations peacekeepers in Haiti’s second largest city Monday, venting fear and anger over a cholera epidemic that many Haitians believe came from foreigners. The national police and U.N. forces used tear-gas to disperse hundreds of angry demonstrators who tried …
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November 24, 2010
Categories: Elections, Medicine and Health
Tags: 2010 elections, cholera, Port Au Prince
Four candidates call for poll delay in cholera-hit Haiti: November 21, 2010 Four Haitian presidential candidates have called for postponing elections set for November 28 as the country struggles with a cholera epidemic that has claimed nearly 1,200 lives and protests targeting UN peacekeepers. Authorities have maintained that the election will not be postponed, but …
November 24, 2010
Categories: Elections, Medicine and Health
Tags: 2010 elections, cholera, election riots
Cholera protesters barricade roads in Haitian capital: The Associated Press Published Monday, November 22, 2010 9:37PM EST PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Protesters in Haiti’s capital are lashing out at U.N. peacekeepers and the government, blocking roads and attacking foreigners’ vehicles. Demonstrators are setting up burning barricades, and Haitian police have fired tear gas. U.N. and non-governmental …
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November 24, 2010
Categories: Asia, Medicine and Health
Israeli clinic in Haiti made cholera treatment facility: Over the past month about 1,200 Haitians have died in an outbreak of cholera while thousands more have sought treatment in hospitals. Almost a year since an earthquake struck Haiti, killing at least 200,000 people and reducing much of its capital of Port-au-Prince to rubble, authorities in …
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November 24, 2010
Categories: Infrastructure, Medicine and Health, Natural Disaster, NGOs
Tags: cholera, rebuilding
Samuel A. Worthington: Rebuilding Haiti in the Time of Cholera: “International NGOs are working flat out to try and contain the cholera outbreak in Haiti, which by November 22 has killed at least 1,344 people and threatens hundreds of thousands more already traumatized by January’s devastating earthquake. The epidemic adds yet another layer of misery …
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