Topic: Haiti
Trash and sewage are piling up at the squalid tent camps that hundreds of thousands have called home since Haiti's devastating earthquake — and with torrential rains expected any day, authorities are not even close to providing the shelters they promised. Two months since ...
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will visit Haiti on Sunday to meet the country's leaders and people left homeless by a January earthquake that killed hundreds of thousands, Ban's spokesman said. The U.N.'s Port-au-Prince headquarters collapsed along with thousands of other buildings in the magnitude 7.0 quake on January 12, and its ...
Caribbean weather experts launched a task force Friday to provide Haiti storm forecasts amid fears the 2010 hurricane season could devastate the country's already fragile infrastructure. French-speaking meteorologists based in Martinique will provide briefings, while Cuba and Jamaica will be asked to send satellite radar imagery, hurricane experts said at the close of a five-day conference in Bermuda. Several ...
