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ONE petitions to cancel Haiti's debt

The ONE campaign is trying to collect 100,000 signatures for . All comments are moderated. Do not submit your comment more than once or it may be identified as spam. Please treat others with respect. Comments containing hate speech, obscenity, and ...

From JENNIFER BREA, Global Voices Online,  18 Jan 2010

Haiti: Mobile phones bring news of missing relatives

All comments are moderated. Do not submit your comment more than once or it may be identified as spam. Please treat others with respect. Comments containing hate speech, obscenity, and personal attacks will not be approved. “This city is more ...

From JENNIFER BREA, Global Voices Online,  18 Jan 2010

Senegal offers free land to Haitian earthquake survivors

President Wade, pictured here at the 2002 World Economic Forum, wants to grant Haitian earthquake survivors free land in Senegal (image source: Wikipedia) Il arrive des moments dans l’histoire d’un pays où les citoyens ont l’occasion de donner une ...

From JENNIFER BREA, Global Voices Online,  17 Jan 2010

Related Topics: World Economic Forum,  Wikipedia,  Abdoulaye Wade,  Marcus Garvey,  Cher

Haiti: “Culture, Crossroads, Color”

Haitian-American writer and artist Lenelle Moise tries to: “balance the images of the devastation of my birthplace (injured bodies aching in wait, starving orphaned children, mass graves set amid rubble) with evidence of all the beautiful dynamic magic ...

From JENNIFER BREA, Global Voices Online,  16 Jan 2010

Haiti: Time Running Out for Earthquake Survivors

Keziah Furth is a 24-year old American nurse who works with kids in Haiti.  She was able to call home today, and her parents posted this account of her experiences since the earthquake on her blog, Mwen renmen ti moun Ayiti yo!: She immediately packed ...

From JENNIFER BREA, Global Voices Online,  16 Jan 2010

Haiti: Rescuing Survivors, Searching for the Missing

Here are just a few of the online networks and databases which have mobilized in the last few days to help relatives abroad locate family and direct urgently needed help to survivors of the earthquake in Haiti, many of whom are still trapped ...

From JENNIFER BREA, Global Voices Online,  15 Jan 2010

Related Topics: New York Times Company,  Google Inc.,  Twitter Inc

Haiti: Finding Trapped Survivors Using Twitter

Twitter users are using the tag #rescuemehaiti to direct help to specific locations in Port-au-Prince and around Haiti where there are known survivors who are trapped or in need of urgent care. All comments are moderated. Do not submit your comment ...

From JENNIFER BREA, Global Voices Online,  15 Jan 2010

Related Topics: Twitter Inc

Diaspora Mobilize to Help Haiti in Earthquake Aftermath

carelpedre, a radio announcer based in Port-au-Prince, writes this morning: There have been at least 30 aftershocks following the 7.0 earthquake that hit Port-au-Prince yesterday, just before 5pm EST.  Information is still hard to come by, but it is ...

From JENNIFER BREA, Global Voices Online,  13 Jan 2010

Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Wyclef Jean,  Facebook Inc.

Togo Disqualified from African Cup Following Deadly Attack

Togo's national football team has been formally disqualified from the African Cup of Nations following Friday's deadly attack on the team's convoy in Cabinda, a region of Angola long troubled by separatist violence. Members of the Togolese national ...

From JENNIFER BREA, Global Voices Online,  12 Jan 2010

Related Topics: Ghana national football team,  Mali national football team

Cameroon: Video Shows Harsh Conditions of Rural Medicine

In 2000, the World Health Organization ranked Cameroon's health care system 163rd in the world.  That's somewhere below Mauritania and just above North Korea.   As in many parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, doctors in Cameroon work without adequate training ...

From JENNIFER BREA, Global Voices Online,  4 Dec 2009

Related Topics: World Health Organization

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