Blog posts tagged "Haiti"

January 19, 2011 6:52 pm 3 Comments

Haiti on Tuesday briefly detained former dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier, back from exile in France on possible charges.

January 18, 2011 5:38 pm 1 Comment

Our Chief Correspondent, Alex Thomson, reports on the latest bizarre developments in the return of Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier to Haiti.

January 17, 2011 4:04 pm 4 Comments

Our Chief Correspondent, Alex Thomson, reports on the return of 'Baby Doc' Duvalier to his ailing country of Haiti - a return that has divided opinion, but which clearly has some official backing.

February 27, 2010 4:21 pm 6 Comments

When I heard about the massive earthquake to hit Chile this morning, I felt like the wind had been punched out of me. Happening so soon after one devastated Haiti, the comparisons came thick and fast.

February 22, 2010 5:01 pm 1 Comment

Oxfam's Alexandros Yiannopoulos on the dilemmas facing aid workers in communities shattered by natural disasters

February 15, 2010 8:47 am 2 Comments

Oxfam's Alexandros Yiannopoulos blogs on how life on the streets is beginning to return to some kind of normality in quake hit Haiti, yet many people still do not have jobs and businesses struggle.

February 7, 2010 2:42 pm 3 Comments

Concern grows over the case of Lanina, who was badly injured in the Haiti earthquake and is being treated by a British doctor, David Nott, in Port-au-Prince.

February 5, 2010 3:16 pm 2 Comments

Helen Hawkings of Oxfam describes the need for public health to be maintained in Haiti.

February 2, 2010 4:28 pm 3 Comments

Channel 4 News reporter Jonathan Rugman reflects on his recent reports from Haiti.

February 1, 2010 10:25 am 1 Comment

Alexandros Yiannopoulos is Oxfam’s coordinator of food security and livelihood in Haiti.  To find out more about Oxfam in Haiti visit their website here. This is the first time I have tried to keep anything like a blog or diary, even though many of my friends have asked me to keep them up-to-date with my [...]