Tag: Haiti

• Thursday, September 8th 2011 - 00:19 UTC

  Uruguay willing to compensate alleged Haitian gang-raped victim

  

  Uruguayan President Jose Mujica has apologised to his Haitian counterpart Michel Martelly over the alleged rape of an 18-year-old Haitian man by Uruguayan UN peacekeeping troops in the poor Caribbean state.

• Thursday, June 30th 2011 - 20:17 UTC

  US says Haiti cholera epidemic was imported, probably UN Nepal peacekeepers

  

  Evidence strongly suggests UN peacekeepers from Nepal were the source of a cholera epidemic in Haiti that has killed more than 5,500 people, said a new report by the US Centres for Disease Control Prevention.

• Tuesday, April 5th 2011 - 21:16 UTC

  Pop singer Michel Martelly wins Haiti presidency by a landslide

  

  Pop singer Michel Martelly better known as “Sweet Micky”, is Haiti's new president-elect. Preliminary results, released by the country's electoral council yesterday, show that Martelly won 68% of the vote in March 20 run-off election to beat former Haitian first lady, Mirlande Manigat.

• Tuesday, March 29th 2011 - 17:59 UTC

  IDB loans effectively disbursed in 2010 totaled 10.3 billion US dollars

  

  The Inter-American Development Bank approved 12.136 billion US dollars in new operations in 2010 and made 10.341 billion in loan disbursements from its ordinary capital, according to its latest annual report issued over the weekend.

• Wednesday, February 2nd 2011 - 16:39 UTC

  ‘Lex Duvalier’ enables Switzerland to confiscate and repatriate illicit dictator assets

  

  Switzerland has moved to confiscate frozen assets linked to former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier. The Swiss cabinet asked Finance Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf to begin proceedings to seize around 6.2 million US dollars that has been frozen in Swiss bank accounts since 1986, with a view to returning the funds to the Haitian people.

• Friday, January 28th 2011 - 19:09 UTC

  Death Toll From Cholera in Haiti Nearly At 4,000

  

  Over 3,900 Haitians have died of cholera since the outbreak began mid-October, officials in the western hemisphere's poorest nation informed.

• Wednesday, January 19th 2011 - 22:39 UTC

  Former Haiti Dictator Charged With Embezzling

  

  Former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier has been charged with embezzling public funds Tuesday, but a judge must still decide whether the indictment can proceed.

• Tuesday, January 18th 2011 - 17:46 UTC

  UNASUR Statement in Support of Haiti One Year after the January 12, 2010 Earthquake

  

  The Member States of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) wish to express their continued support to the Government and people of Haiti in the extremely difficult circumstances that have prevailed since the devastation caused by the fateful earthquake that struck the country on January 12, 2010.One year later, we join with the people of Haiti and the world over in remembering the victims of that tragedy.

• Thursday, January 6th 2011 - 22:58 UTC

  Haiti: Sexual violence against women increasing

  

  Women and girls living in Haiti’s makeshift camps face an increasing risk of rape and sexual violence, Amnesty International said in a new report released today.

• Tuesday, November 30th 2010 - 05:49 UTC

  OAS and Caricom validate Sunday’s election in Haiti in spite of fraud allegations

  

  The Organization of American States, OAS, and the countries of the Caribbean Common Market, Caricom, have validated Sunday’s presidential election despite irregularities that generated protests and allegations of fraud.