Ugandans use hand tools to dig out mud; 86 dead
When Beatrice Nabuduwa’s 12-year-old daughter failed to come home after school, the mother assumed her child had stayed over at...
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Haiti confronts a monumental disposal problem
When a city crashes to the ground, how do you dispose of it? Six weeks after an earthquake reduced Port-au-Prince...
Haitians in the U.S. feel the pull of home
Cyncia Raymond Celestin and her husband, Guito, were about to buy their dream house in Miami Shores. They drove “his-and-hers”...
Caribbeans urged to write in ancestry on US Census
Identify yourself as being of “Hispanic, Latino or Spanish origin” on the 2010 U.S. Census questionnaire, and you will get...
Haiti Rebounds
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti ? After you get beyond the fact that Haiti, particularly Port-au-Prince, the capital, is a modern-day ruin ?...
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Armed soldiers storm Niger presidential palace
Renegade soldiers in armored vehicles stormed Niger’s presidential palace with a hail of gunfire during broad daylight Thursday in an...
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South Africa: Mandela marks 20 years of freedom
South African lawmakers sang Nelson Mandela’s praises Thursday as the anti-apartheid icon settled into parliament’s public gallery for a State...
Haitians Hold Day of Mourning on Quake Anniversary
Thousands of Haitians crowded churches in the capital Friday for a national day of mourning a month after the magnitude-7.0...
New leaders rise from rubble in Haiti’s camps of homeless
When the earthquake struck, Marie Yvelene Boisdefer was at the soccer stadium, teaching a group of young women a dance...