Haiti protesters burn plane belonging to US missionary group
Port-au-Prince, HaitiReuters Haitian demonstrators protesting against crime in the city of Les Cayes on Tuesday burned a plane belonging to US missionary group Agape Flights, according to local media reports and an Agape spokeswoman. The protesters entered the local airport in Les Cayes even though police fired tear gas at the group, according to a […]
“Trying to survive”: Scrap metal recycling brings cash in Haiti post-earthquake
Les Cayes, HaitiReuters After a devastating earthquake levelled tens of thousands of homes in Haiti, some residents have started to pick up the pieces, collecting scrap metal from the rubble to resell and make ends meet. Djedson Hypolite deftly coiled severed electrical wires at a collapsed home in the southern Haitian city of Les Cayes […]
“They are hungry”: Haiti quake survivors fear for children’s future
Camp-Perrin, Haiti Reuters Many survivors of an earthquake that killed more than 2,200 people in southern Haiti are worried about providing for their children, with more than half a million minors feared to be at risk from the fallout. The 14th August quake hammered infrastructure, destroying or damaging some 130,000 homes, cutting off roads and […]
Damaged roads hinder aid reaching remote areas of Haiti quake zone
Marceline, HaitiReuters Damaged or impassable roads hindered efforts on Friday to deliver aid to remote parts of Haiti devastated by an earthquake last weekend that killed more than 2,000 people as hopes of finding those still missing faded. Landslides and cracks in the tarmac on the main inland mountain road between the southwestern city of […]
Foreign aid trickles in to rural Haiti amid struggle to count victims
Cavaillon, Haiti Reuters A drip of foreign aid began to reach more rural areas of south-western Haiti on Thursday, arriving five days after a powerful earthquake killed more than 2,000 and flattened tens of thousands of buildings into rubble. Hundreds of people lined up to receive provisions from the UN World Food Programme at a camp […]
Haitians grow impatient for quake aid as hungry crowd gathers
Les Cayes, Haiti Reuters A hungry crowd gathered outside an airport in southern Haiti on Wednesday as people left homeless by an earthquake that killed some 2,000 people voiced anger that government aid was slow to arrive five days after the disaster, leaving many without food and water. Prime Minister Ariel Henry, who flew to […]
Haiti quake death toll surges to nearly 2,000, survivors clamor for aid
Les Cayes, HaitiReuters The preliminary death toll from the major earthquake that struck south-western Haiti last weekend surged to 1,941 on Tuesday as the search for survivors resumed after a tropical storm passed and quake-hit Haitians clamored for food, shelter and medical aid. Hospitals struggled to tend to all those injured, the official tally of […]
Haiti mourners tell of church collapse horror during quake
Toirac, HaitiReuters When the ground began to tremble during a church funeral service in the small village of Toirac in southern Haiti, Kettney Francois was trampled in the frantic stampede to escape. Fellow mourners pulled her out from the crush of people and carried her outside, but her teenage daughter and elderly mother were not […]
Haiti earthquake: Anger rises over aid response to past disasters
LAURA GOTTESDIENER and DAVE GRAHAM, of Reuters, report from Haiti in the wake of Saturday’s earthquake…
Distraught Haitians seek medical help at swamped hospitals after quake
Les Cayes, HaitiReuters Doctors in Haiti battled on Monday in makeshift tents to save the lives of hundreds of injured people, including young children and the elderly outside hospitals overwhelmed by a major earthquake that killed at least 1,297 people. Saturday’s 7.2 magnitude quake brought down thousands of homes and buildings in the deeply impoverished […]