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Published: Feb 9, 2010 by admin
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The United Nations has temporarily closed
Monday its distribution sites for food in Port-au-Prince, after finding
counterfeit food coupons, has announced a program manager. Stopping the distribution of rice on a
site of Petion-Ville, a suburb of the Haitian capital, was decided for
the day after the discovery of these counterfeit coupons in circulation.
The suspension affects some 10,000
people, said David Orr, the World Food Program (WFP). WFP has set up 16 distribution points for food
in the greater Port-au-Prince, which has about one million homeless in
the aftermath of the earthquake of January 12. It distributes bags of rice of 25 kg,
corresponding to the needs of a family for about two weeks. Distributions are expected to resume
tomorrow.
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Published: Feb 8, 2010 by admin
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Five of the ten American
Baptists who are prosecuted in Haiti for abduction began to be heard
this morning before a judge in Port-au-Prince.
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Published: Feb 8, 2010 by admin
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The International Fund
for Agricultural Development (IFAD, the UN agency) announced Monday a
donation of $ 5.66 million to Haiti to improve agricultural production
in some poor areas of northern countries devastated by the January 12
earthquake.
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Published: Feb 7, 2010 by admin
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The U.S. military will remain engaged in Haiti "as it will be
useful, today assured the press Colonel Gregory Kane, director of
command operations in Haiti, saying that" the military element "could
take" between 45 and 50 days.
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Published: Feb 6, 2010 by admin
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The
request for provisional release filed by ten American Baptists continue
in Haiti for abduction was released yesterday, said their lawyer Edwin
Coq.
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