s power crisis. Now the world's largest solar hospital is lighting the way Mirebalais is just an hour's drive north-east of the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, but in terms of technological distance travelled, the town might as well be on another planet. On moonless nights, much of the capital is dark; its shacks and makeshift roadside stalls are lit only by flickering candles or small kerosene lamps....
Dozens of people feared dead and more than 100 rescued after sailboat overcrowded with Haitians ran aground ...
Dozens feared drowned and 110 rescued as vessel hits reef while heading towards US on people-smuggling route A sailboat passing through the southern Bahamas islands with about 150 Haitian migrants on board capsized after running aground, killing up to 30 people and leaving the rest clinging to the vessel for hours, authorities have said. Authorities on the scene confirmed at least 20 dead and determined...
s authorisation. Morel, a former Associated Press staffer, argued that the agencies had violated the copyright act after the images were re-published by AFP without his permission. After Morel hired a lawyer to issue cease-and-desist orders to the agencies AFP sued him, alleging commercial defamation. In response, Morel filed a counterclaim against AFP, Getty and the Washington Post for infringing...
s capital Port-au-Prince , vowing to drive president Michel Martelly from power. Protesters lit barricades made from old tyres on one of the busiest streets in Port-au-Prince and tore down posters and billboards bearing Martelly'shis face as they called on him to step down after two years in office. "We are moving forward to removing him from power and won't stop until he leaves," said Jean Daniel,...
s not a process that is done overnight. Just clearing Tacloban of the ruins will take months. Experts say that the first priority is to clear roads and other transport connections. Access to all places is crucial. And not everything should be thrown away. Some of the wreckage will be reusable. Plan Following a survey of the disaster-hit buildings, there needs to be a reconstruction strategy. Perhaps...
t just that the climate is partially manmade. All such disasters, insofar as they befall human communities, are socially constituted. We have known for some time, for example, that famine is the result not simply of crop failure, but of political and market failure. It is planned human responses, as much as the natural event itself, that produces the disaster. So it is in the Philippines after typhoon...
s head of disaster risk in south-east Asia has admitted. Jerry Velasquez said: "In the past, early warning systems were based on wind speeds, and then in 2011 this was changed [to take into account waves]. New equipment was put in but there was very little experience on storm surges." He said the country's 2013 disaster budget, of about $171m (£107m), had been used up on previous weather-related disasters....
Just as this soldier is slicing through the air with his baton, he is slicing through my life before and after this photograph' I called this photo Hunger Overcomes Fear. It shows a child trying to steal food during a riot in Cap-Haïtien in northern Haiti in January 1986. I knew how the country worked under Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier's dictatorship and his secret police, the Tontons Macoutes,...
s digest – our daily space to tell you the latest news, advice and analysis from the sector. • Continuing on from Andrew Bibby's earlier discussion of the Co-op's changing ownership - The Co-operative Group yesterday announced a rescue plan for its banking arm. The plan involves handing control over of the unit to investors including US hedge funds as part of a $1.5bn bail-in. • Following on from our...
By aligning both economic and social interests, we can leverage consumer habits to help increase prosperity in Haiti' It's been nearly four years since the Haiti earthquake and despite the billions of dollars that have been pumped into aid relief projects, the country is still recovering. "Since the earthquake, there has been a lot of short-term aid in Haiti, but creating sustainable and long-term...
t show the full picture. After all, a story of someone's life changed by a loan can be rapidly reversed when their house in a slum is bulldozed or their family member dies because they didn't have adequate healthcare. What we are selling is old and tired. And it isn't working: overall funding for global development organisations is decreasing internationally ; NGOs have been struggling to counter criticism...