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/ 22 January 2010
UN-led teams in Haiti have switched their focus away from searching for people trapped in collapsed buildings to providing aid to desperate survivors.
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/ 22 January 2010
In overwhelmed hospitals of Port-au-Prince, number of patients having limbs removed indicates a future national crisis.
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/ 21 January 2010
Search teams in Haiti on Thursday refused to abandon hope of finding more survivors of last week’s massive earthquake.
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/ 20 January 2010
A strong aftershock struck Haiti on Wednesday, creating panic among people camping out in the capital’s streets after last week’s earthquake.
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/ 19 January 2010
The SA-based Gift of the Givers rescue team had to clear a hospital of 600 bodies in the Haiti capital, Port-au-Prince, on Tuesday.
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/ 19 January 2010
Security forces struggled on Tuesday to control looters in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince.
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/ 19 January 2010
Relief workers say pockets of violence in Haiti’s devastated capital are hindering a slow increase in much-needed aid delivery.
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/ 19 January 2010
For two days, Ticia Vital refused doctors’ pleas to allow them to amputate her festering left leg, even as the gangrene spread.
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/ 19 January 2010
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/ 18 January 2010
The Red Cross warned on Monday that violence by desperate Haitians is growing, despite the mammoth international earthquake relief operation.
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/ 18 January 2010
The US military’s takeover of emergency operations in Haiti has triggered a diplomatic row with countries and aid agencies.
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/ 18 January 2010
A South African rescue team started work in quake-devastated Haiti, the international relations department said on Sunday.
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/ 17 January 2010
World leaders pledged massive aid programmes to rebuild Haiti but desperate earthquake survivors are still waiting for food, water and medicine.
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/ 17 January 2010
After the immediate horrors of Haiti quake, the survivors are menaced by long-term danger of post-traumatic mental damage.
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/ 17 January 2010
Haitian earthquake survivors fought over food and water and others fled their wrecked capital on Saturday as the US rolled out its relief effort.
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/ 16 January 2010
Hundreds of thousands of Haitians are in need of drinking water because of a damaged pipeline and drivers unwilling or unable to deliver their cargo.
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/ 16 January 2010
As many as 200 000 people died in the earthquake that devastated Haiti and three-quarters of the capital will need to be rebuilt.
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/ 15 January 2010
Thousands of people injured in Haiti’s massive earthquake spent a third night twisted in pain, lying on sidewalks and waiting for help.
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/ 15 January 2010
The South African government on Thursday pledged R1-million for the relief effort in Haiti following the massive earthquake in the Caribbean republic.
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/ 14 January 2010
Traumatised Haitians slept out in parks and streets on Thursday, fearing aftershocks to the earthquake that flattened homes and buried people.
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/ 14 January 2010
Rescuers and relief supplies head to Haiti as the world launches a relief operation after an earthquake feared to have killed 100 000 people.
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/ 13 January 2010
A major earthquake rocked Haiti on Tuesday, killing possibly thousands of people as it toppled the presidential palace and hillside shanties.
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/ 13 January 2010
A major earthquake struck the capital of impoverished Haiti on Tuesday, toppling many buildings and burying hundreds under the rubble.
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/ 9 November 2008
The death toll in the collapse of a ramshackle school in Haiti rose above 90 on Saturday after rescue workers uncovered a room full of dead.
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/ 8 November 2008
A church school collapsed on the outskirts of Haiti’s capital on Friday, burying dozens in rubble and killing at least 50, many of them children.
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/ 5 September 2008
Corpses surfaced in the sodden Haitian city of Gonaives on Friday following Tropical Storm Hanna — as fierce Hurricane Ike neared from the Atlantic.
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/ 5 September 2008
Haiti was reeling on Thursday night from a series of tropical storms which devastated crops and left bodies floating in flooded towns.
Tropical Storm Gustav stalled over Haiti on Wednesday, lashing the impoverished country with heavy rain and killing at least 13 people.
Gustav weakened after it slammed into Haiti as a hurricane on Tuesday, killing at least two people, but could strengthen again, said forecasters.
Tropical Storm Gustav grew into a hurricane on Tuesday after emerging in the Caribbean, threatening Haiti with powerful winds.
The sixth tropical storm of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season was heading for Haiti on Saturday where heavy rains could cause mudslides.
Haitian lawmakers voted on Saturday to dismiss Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis, hoping to defuse widespread anger over rising food prices that had led to days of deadly protests and looting. President Rene Preval immediately said he would a name a new prime minister.