Cite Soleil - US Politics

The pump installed in Haiti's largest slum of Cite Soleil spews out clear but unprocessed water -- residents must add chlorine themselves to ward off cholera.The problem is such chemicals are expensive, so most of the estimated 300,000 inhabitants of ...

One person was said to have died in the sprawling Cite Soleil slum, badly hit in the January earthquake which left 1.3 million people homeless in the impoverished Caribbean nation of some 10 million people.For the moment there has been ...

They've been forced to swap school books for pistols, homework for hold-ups and drug-dealing: with no parents, some of Haiti's earthquake orphans have turned to slum gangs as ersatz family in a hard-scrabble bid to survive.Square meals and the ...

Haiti's supreme voodoo leader vowed "The attack on Tuesday in the capital's sprawling Cite Soleil slum came with religious tensions rising, as Protestant Evangelicals and other denominations recruit in the wake of the earthquake that killed more than 200,000 ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - The top U.N. official in Haiti urged Haitians on Tuesday to turn in thousands of escaped criminals before they start trouble, but said the security situation in the quake-struck Caribbean nation is stable."I can say the security situation ...

More than 150,000 Haiti quake victims buried; food reaches survivors, but 'we need more'The truckers filling Haiti's mass graves with bodies reported ever higher numbers: There is a shortage of tents," said Vincent Houver, the Geneva-based agency's chief ...

Ten perished when the "Blue House" a landmark concrete tower converted into a U.N. post near the slum's entrance collapsed, leaving weapons and equipment readily available to fast-acting looters.The U.N. peacekeeping mission also lost its chief, deputy chief ...

Haiti quake survivors face critical need for water as aid, supplies trickle from airportHundreds of thousands of Haitians are in desperate need of drinking water because of an earthquake-damaged municipal pipeline and truck drivers either unable or unwilling to deliver their cargo ...

The article reviews the documentary film depicting gang life in Haiti " The film was shot in 2004 in the Haitian slum of Cite Soleil in Port-au-Prince, described by the UN as "the most dangerous place on earth", though it remains unclear whether ...

Haiti holds long-delayed Senate election, but few voters venture to pollsClear-plastic ballot boxes were nearly empty and Port-au-Prince's streets unusually deserted Sunday as few voters turned out for Senate elections in which candidates from a major populist party were not allowed ...

Topic: Cite Soleil

Safe water out of reach for poor Haitians

Cholera outbreak surges, reaches slum in Haitian capital

Gangs become father, mother to Haiti's forlorn orphans

Haitian voodoo leader vows 'war' after attack on ceremony

Haiti secure after quake, but escapees a concern: U.N.

150,000 Haiti quake victims buried, gov't says

Gang members in Haitian slum profit from disaster

Water delivery disruptions imperil quake survivors

Where ghosts deal out death

Few turn out in Haiti for delayed Senate election

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