Haiti News

News reports about the devastating earthquake in Haiti have slowed to a trickle in North America but the destruction left in the disaster's wake is something Haitians still deal with every day.

Wyclef Jean released a statement Friday saying he will make a public announcement next week on whether he will run for president of Haiti.

But in Haiti, aid teams are testing a specially treated bag designed to turn human faeces into compost within weeks.

Even as they share stages with Springsteen, Bowie and U2, the Montreal rockers have always stayed true to their indie origins.

Previous Next Dr. John P. Howe III, Project HOPE President and CEO, left, and Patricia Bacuros, Project HOPE GIK Director, right, chat with Theodore Clermelie and her 10-month-old son Joseph Salomon as a delegation put together by Project HOPE visits Clinique St.

The first predominantly African-American congregation from Florida to minister in Haiti since the Jan.

Submitted Photo Father Gerald Mullally of St. Patrick's Church in Milford, Pa., sits with children from the church's "sister-parish" in Haiti.

The United Nations and its partners are aiming to reach an additional 500,000 Haitian children during a second round of emergency immunizations in the Caribbean nation that was struck by a devastating earthquake just over six months ago.

SIX months have passed, but it seems like yesterday when, on that January 12, the faces of this agitated, forgetful world turned toward Haiti, the poorest nation of the American continent.

Grammy-award winning singer Wyclef Jean said on Thursday that he has taken legal steps toward running for president in quake-devastated Haiti, but has not made a definite decision to run.

AN Irish charity building houses in Haiti has said it has exceeded its targets in the impoverished country despite the destruction wrought by the hurricane last winter.

Treasury Under Secretary Lael Brainard met top Haitian leaders on Thursday to discuss the upcoming deployment of a technical assistance team to tighten financial management in Haiti.

Down a craggy pathway, past the open-air pews that line the emergency wing, to the right of a bright red shipping container packed with tents and toiletries that in five months has yet to be cracked open, is the Hopital Adventiste d'Haiti's "excess supply outpost."

PRINCE, Haiti a ' If it weren't hard enough looking after 2,000 earthquake victims crammed into a sweltering schoolyard, Jean Robert Charles now has to worry about rapists.

On the streets of Port-au-Prince, there's no missing Wyclef Jean. The hip-hop superstar's face is plastered on large billboards for the cellphone company Voila; and local stations constantly play the recent remake of "We are the World," which featured Jean as the literal voice of his island nation as he sings in Haitian Creole.

WASHINGTON -- With cleanup following the Jan. 12 earthquake moving at a snail's pace and life in makeshift shelters the new normal, Haitians are facing their predicament with a spirit of patience that has impressed two American bishops.

CORNELIUS There were two reasons to be at Bethel Presbyterian Church Monday, July 26: Pastor Leon Dorleans, a director of Haiti Outreach Ministries, spoke about the history of the organization and their work since the earthquake earlier this year.

Distraught parents mourned the loss of two children in a camp for Haitian earthquake survivors Wednesday, a day after rains caused a wall to collapse on top of a row of tarp homes.

IN February, a month after Haiti's earthquake, I went down to Port-au-Prince as part of a team that was helping to reactivate cardiac care in the city's public hospital.

Haitian police and radio say at least 22 people have been killed in two bus accidents near the capital this week.