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U.N. Wrong to Reject New Evidence It Caused Haiti's Cholera Epidemic
Port au Prince :: Haiti | 7 months ago
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Ban Ki-moon Should Apologize to Families & Reopen Investigation U.N. Wrong to Reject New Evidence It Caused Haiti's Cholera Epidemic Expert Repudiates U.N. Report, says world body is culpable Geneva, The U.N. needs to reopen its 2011 investigation
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Cholera deaths in Cuba rise to 158
Cuba :: MO :: USA | 10 months ago
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The Health Ministry denied there had been a "spread" of cholera on the Communist-ruled island, blaming the incidents outside the affected town of Manzanillo on "isolated cases," that would be "treated and studied promptly." "This outbreak is not
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Haiti's Cholera Outraced the Experts and Tainted the U.N.
Port au Prince :: Haiti | 1 year ago
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Damon Winter/The New York Times A man who drifted in and out of consciousness as he was treated at the Doctors Without Borders clinic. On Oct. 16, 2010, Mr. Pelette, 38, woke at dawn in his solitary room behind a bric-a-brac shop off the town square.
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Haiti's Cholera Outraced the Experts and Tainted the U.N.
Port au Prince :: Haiti | 1 year ago
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Damon Winter/The New York Times A man who drifted in and out of consciousness as he was treated at the Doctors Without Borders clinic. On Oct. 16, 2010, Mr. Pelette, 38, woke at dawn in his solitary room behind a bric-a-brac shop off the town square.
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Haitians seek UN redress for cholera victims
Port au Prince :: Haiti | 1 year ago
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10 Hundreds of Haitians have marched from the United Nation's base in the capital, Port-au-Prince, to the country's parliament, demanding compensation and justice for the victims of the cholera epidemic blamed on the global body's peacekeepers.
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Congo-Kinshasa: Cholera Epidemic Threatens Goma
Goma :: Congo (Dem. Rep.) | 1 year ago
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Poorer neighbourhoods are suffering in this city in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Cholera outbreaks regularly occur in Goma, capital of the DRC's Northern Kivu province. Yet, in the past few weeks the disease has spread rapidly, claiming
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Clinton blamed the UN soldiers by the cholera epidemic in Haiti.
Several studies attribute the origin of the outbreak to the "blue helmets" of Nepal, which threw their waste into a river heavily used. Former U.S. President, United Nations envoy to the country, expressed such. Bill
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Poor Haiti: Political ineptitude compounds its problems
Port au Prince :: Haiti | 1 year ago
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Last Friday Prime Minister Garry Conille, in office for only four months, resigned, citing a breakdown of his working relationship with his Cabinet that reflected also an inability to work effectively with Haitian President Michel Martelly. Nature
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Two years on and Haiti still floundering
Pétionville :: Haiti | over 1 year ago
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In the Port-au-Prince suburb of Petionville, some 2 500 people subsist in a crowded public park near open ditches flowing with human waste, a grim scene frozen in time two years after Haiti's earthquake disaster. Valerie Loiseau (28) recalled the
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ZIMBABWE: Is another cholera epidemic on the way?
Harare :: Zimbabwe | over 1 year ago
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The Consolidated Appeal Process (CAP) for Zimbabwe, launched on 9 December, is asking for US$268 million for humanitarian assistance in 2012...A third of rural Zimbabweans still drink from unprotected water sources and are thus exposed to waterborne
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