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• Disasters, the Media Circus and Accountability

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  Disaster strikes some poor, forgotten corner of the world which most people had never heard of. The media circus descends, outlets vying with one another to show the most shocking pictures. The international aid circus follows this, promises of aid by Governments follow that and finally, in-depth stories and profiles flow on the Net and in...

• Haiti Earthquake: Grand Finale of Political Instability

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  The humanitarian disaster in Haiti unveiled many problems, which the nation has been living with for decades. Most of them are connected with the fact that the country does not know what normal power is. None of its rulers have done a thing to give Haitians an opportunity to overcome poverty. Haiti has shown the world the terrible example of what...

• Haiti: What now?

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  The international community is trying to prevent an urban disaster becoming a rural catastrophe, planning to help the new influx of city-dwellers to the countryside establish themselves. Ban Ki-Moon praises the resilience of the Haitian population. After all, in how many countries would people be singing in the streets and playing musical...

• US Troops Occupy Haiti, Cancel Humanitarian Aid from Russia

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  All foreign journalists staying at the international airport of Haiti’s Port-au-Prince will have to leave the territory of the airdrome in connection with a requirement from the defense authorities of the United States which control the airport. In the meantime, Russian rescue teams faced serious problems with the delivery of humanitarian cargoes...

• 6.1 Quake Hits Haiti

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  A little more than a week since a devastating earthquake, another has hit Haiti. This has initially been considered a new quake due to all the time elapsed and not an aftershock since the size alone qualifies it to be considered an earthquake in and of itself. At 6:03 a.m. local time, Haitians became disoriented and started running in the streets...