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Haiti: mistakes plus negligence equals death

4 Jun 2013 4 minute read

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Haiti: mistakes plus negligence equals death

Where is the urgency in helping the poor and sick, like Baby Willgesta? asks Sokari Ekine.

Haiti’s poor majority pushed to the margins

20 May 2013 4 minute read

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Haiti’s poor majority pushed to the margins

While commercial interests look to ‘seize opportunity’ in the country, Sokari Ekine has seen an increase in...

17 Apr 2013 3 minute read

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This is Haiti – for better or worse

As Sokari Ekine prepares to leave the island, she reflects on her experience, and Haiti’s likely future.

22 Mar 2013 3 minute read

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We need to talk about faeces

As part of World Water Day on 22 March 2013, Sokari Ekine writes on the clean water and sanitation crisis...

From cradle to grave – supporting Haiti’s poor

12 Mar 2013 4 minute read

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From cradle to grave – supporting Haiti’s poor

Sokari Ekine meets a community worker helping poor women help themselves.

25 Feb 2013 3 minute read

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Haiti’s struggling healthcare system

It’s easy to blame the 2010 earthquake, but there are other factors involved, says Sokari Ekine.

Unfulfilled promises leave Haiti ‘sick and broken’

7 Feb 2013 3 minute read

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Unfulfilled promises leave Haiti ‘sick and broken’

Sokari Ekine sees hospitals without hope and women traders being swept from the streets.

31 Jan 2013 3 minute read

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Haiti’s colonial hangover

The linguistic and religious legacy of the French lives on 200 years after independence, writes Sokari Ekine...

23 Jan 2013 3 minute read

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Haiti: we want homes, not handouts

It’s not surprising Haitians are angry, says Sokari Ekine.

30 Jan 2012 1 minute read

This article is more than 11 years old.

Podcast: Haiti today

Haiti after the earthquake: today's problems and today's solutions. Part two of the Haiti Support Group round table.

Podcast: Haiti's colonial past still burdens

27 Jan 2012 2 minute read

This article is more than 11 years old.

Podcast: Haiti's colonial past still burdens

In part one of a special edition of the Radio NI podcast, Mario Joseph, Phillip Wearne and Anne McConnell talk about the...

Podcast: Mark Schuller on Haiti after the earthquake

3 Jan 2012 1 minute read

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Podcast: Mark Schuller on Haiti after the earthquake

Mark Schuller, an expert on the relief effort after Haiti's 2010 earthquake, talks about the positive and...

1 Jan 2012 12 minute read

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Haiti two years on: beyond relief, beyond belief

Haiti is not just recovering from the
earthquake but from the political and
economic interventions of recent...

1 Jan 2012 7 minute read

This article is more than 11 years old.

Haiti: where did all the money go?

More than $10 billion was raised worldwide for Haiti after the earthquake. But, two years on, what have NGOs done with the...

1 Jan 2012 1 minute read

This article is more than 11 years old.

Tents beyond tents

A cartoon introduction to life in the camps in and around Port-au-Prince.

21 Dec 2011 4 minute read

This article is more than 11 years old.

Haiti’s decision to rearm is an obstacle to peace, development and freedom

Costa Rica’s former President Oscar Arias Sanchez – who was instrumental in abolishing his own country’s army...

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