Africa: AU Wants Strong African Solidarity for Haiti

Africa: AU Wants Strong African Solidarity for Haiti, by Juliana Taiwo, This Day (Lagos) (posted on allAfrica.com), January 27, 2010 Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC), Mr. Jean Ping, has called for strong African solidarity with the people of Haiti. More...

The U.S. Should Welcome Haitians In

The U.S. Should Welcome Haitians In, Editorial, The Washington Post, January 29, 2010 THE UNITED STATES has reacted swiftly and generously to Haiti's calamity, both with a colossal charitable response from individuals, enterprises and organizations and with a substantial commitment of troops, money, medical help and high-level attention from the government. But the Obama administration can and should do more, and quickly, to ease the vast burden of relief and rebuilding and to channel cash to Haitian families in dire need. More...

Can Davos Help Haiti?

Can Davos Help Haiti? by Lindsay Mackie, The Guardian, January 29, 2010 Davos: A discussion about harnessing global business to reconstruct Haiti struck some uncomfortable notes More...

A Nation on its Knees

A Nation on its Knees, by Hugh O'Shaughnessy, The Guardian, January 28, 2010
Haiti has suffered, and continues to suffer, from the malilgn interference from foreign powers More...

In Disaster, Tensions Ease Between an Island’s Rivals

In Disaster, Tensions Ease Between an Island’s Rivals, by SIMON ROMERO and MARC LACEY, The New York Times, January 28, 2010 Like almost anyone from Hispaniola, the island uncomfortably shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic, Paloma Rivera is acutely aware that the two nations distrust each other, complain about each other and cite grievances about each other going back well over a century. Yet here she was, a Dominican, clearing garbage and digging latrines in a slum in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, to help survivors of the earthquake find a place to pitch their tents. More...

2 Weeks After Haiti Quake, Food Aid Falls Short

2 Weeks After Haiti Quake, Food Aid Falls Short, by VIVIAN SEQUERA and BEN FOX of
The Associated Press, The Washington Post, January 28, 2010 Whether locked up in warehouses or stolen by thugs from people's hands, food from the world's aid agencies still isn't getting to enough hungry Haitians, leaving the strongest and fittest with the most. More...

HAITI: Local Leaders Shut Out of Military-Run Relief Efforts

HAITI: Local Leaders Shut Out of Military-Run Relief Efforts, by Ansel Herz, Inter Press News Agency, January 28, 2010 Two gray 23-million-dollar hovercrafts sitting in the middle of a sandy tropical beach look like they are from another world. A pair of 15-foot-wide propeller fans sticks out from the back of each behemoth. Along the narrow dirt road to this seaside town's centre, families live under blankets stretched over sticks. A tent city occupies the town's main square, surrounded by crumbling buildings. Joseph Jean-Pierre Salam, the mayor of Grand Goave, about 15 kilometres west of Port-au-Prince, estimated that some 70 percent of the city's important structures fell during the 7.0 earthquake that struck Haiti on Jan. 12. More...