In this brief, the World Food Programme (WFP) is introducing its flagship integrated climate-risk management approach, the R4 Rural Resilience Initiative (R4), to address both the climatic and non-climatic drivers of vulnerability in Haiti. WFP Haiti is combining a set of integrated risk management strategies, including access to microinsurance, as …
Mid 16th century The Spaniards’ expectations of plentiful and easily accessible gold reserves proves unfounded, but the island still becomes important as a seat of colonial administration, a starting point for conquests of other lands, and a laboratory to develop policies for governing new possessions. At Española the Spanish crown …
Aid agencies are well resourced and quick to act, but not enough of them appear to be using their power to tackle the long term problems posed by climate change. Aid agencies are first on the scene of many of the world's trouble spots, and often play a huge role …
Tragedy has a way of visiting those who can bear it least. Haiti is the poorest nation in the western hemisphere, a place where malnutrition is widespread and less than half the population has access to clean drinking water. At 4:53:09 p.m. on Jan. 12, at a point 15 miles …
PAUL HAVEN and MICHELLE FAUL A powerful new earthquake struck Haiti on Wednesday, shaking rubble from damaged buildings and sending screaming people running into the streets only eight days after the country's capital was devastated by an apocalyptic quake. The magnitude-6.1 tremor was the largest aftershock yet to the January …
ANDREW CAWTHORNE and CATHERINE BREMER PORT-AU-PRINCE The pace of food and medical aid deliveries picked up in earthquake shattered Haiti, providing some hope to desperate survivors, but doctors worried disease would be the next big challenge for the tens of thousands left injured and homeless a week ago. Medical teams …
Ban Ki-moon The disaster in Haiti shows once again something that we, as human beings, have always known: that even amid the worst devastation, there is always hope. I saw that for myself this week in Port au Prince. The United Nations suffered its single greatest loss in history. Our …
MICHELLE FAUL and ALFRED DE MONTESQUIOU PORT-AU-PRINCE Troops, doctors and aid workers flowed into Haiti on Monday even while hundreds of thousands of quake victims struggled to find a cup or water or a handful of food. European nations pledged more than a half-billion dollars, with $474 million in emergency …
ANDREW CAWTHORNE and CATHERINE BREMER PORT-AU-PRINCE World leaders pledged aid to rebuild a devastated Haiti, but on the streets of its wrecked capital earthquake survivors were still waiting on Sunday for the basics: food, water and medicine. Five days after a 7.0 magnitude quake killed up to 200,000 people, international …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced a $5 million assistance to quake-ravaged Haiti towards relief measures. "India stands by the government and people of Haiti in their hour of need. We would like to make an immediate cash donation of $5 million as a token of our solidarity with the people …
Haiti, a small, impoverished Caribbean nation, is slowly coming to terms with the calamitous earthquake of January 12, which measured 7.0 on the Richter scale and was followed by several powerful aftershocks. The toll on human life is estimated at 45,000-50,000 by the Red Cross. With reports of hundreds of …
Forty-eight hours after an earthquake devastated the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, the first emergency assessment teams were yesterday still trying to establish just how many people had died. The sketchy picture from the area underlined the mammoth task facing an international rescue mission that swung into action yesterday. After Haitians …
The US and other nations were on Friday racing to send help to Haiti where tens of thousands of dead and injured remain buried in rubble or laid by the roadside after the country
Port-au-Prince Haiti's Prime Minister on Thursday warned the death toll may top 100,000 in a calamitous earthquake which left streets strewn with corpses and thousands missing in a scene of utter carnage. Hospitals collapsed, destroyed schools were full of dead and the cries of trapped victims escaped from crushed buildings …
U.N. building, presidential palace among those flattened Haiti: Haitians piled bodies along the devastated streets of their capital Wednesday after a powerful earthquake crushed thousands of structures, from schools and shacks to the National Palace and the U.N. peacekeeping headquarters. Untold numbers were still trapped. President Rene Preval said he …
Most of sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia are facing extreme or high risk of food shortages, according to a Food Security Risk Index ranking of 148 nations. Pakistan, ranked 11th on the index, is at
Somalia and Sri Lanka are among the countries at greatest risk from climate change, while the US and Japan are within the top 15 nations least at risk. Africa and much of South Asia face extreme risk from climate change but top carbon polluters will be relatively shielded from its …
