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The other day in the midst of Port-au-Prince, the great degraded capital city that is my home, I saw a car, an old battered car, a jalopy, falter and sputter and come to a slow halt.
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To guarantee an S. R.O crowd for their execution, Duvalier ordered all businesses closed and schools let out; backland peasants were trucked into Port-au-Prince.
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Earlier Thursday, planes carrying teams from China, France and Spain landed at Port-au-Prince's airport with searchers and tons of food, medicine and other supplies — with more promised from around the globe.
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With most ofits basic infrastructure flattened and the majority of its citizensliving in temporary housing and tents, Port-au-Prince is beginning tothink about how it will rebuild itself.
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Since the minute the goudou-goudou the onomatopoeic name locals give to the earthquake made the ground shake and groan, more than 230,000 people have died and about 1.5 million have lost their homes in Port-au-Prince and the nearby cities of Léogâne, Jacmel and Petit-Goâve.
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Marilyn was staying at the decidedly downscale Park Hotel, across from the similarly down-scale Champs Mars, Port-au-Prince's town square.
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According to Hover, Port-Au-Prince's bay was originally much deeper and was probably filled in over time "with a very soft and liquefiable soil" that contributed to the damage.
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Lack of sanitation is one of the greatest risks in Port-au-Prince, as more than a million people now live in 116 improvised camps without latrines in school yards, soccer stadiums and even the front yard of the presidential palace, said Steve Hollingworth, chief operating officer for CARE.
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While in Haiti, we notified a health monitoring service about suspected outbreaks of up to 100 cases of diptheria in Camp Cannan, twelve miles north of Port-au-Prince.
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Aid workers in Haiti say earthquake relief efforts are starting to make an impact, but frustration is mounting in Port-au-Prince, where Haitians say they lack food, water and a government.
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Twenty containers of relief supplies from K. I.D.S have already been sent or are en route to our partners in Haiti," said President Janice Weinman, "Although the main port at Port-Au-Prince is still closed, we have been able to arrange for shipping through the port at Cap-Haitien on the country's north coast, and we have been cleared to send two container shipments per day through the main airport at Port-Au-Prince.
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People currently in Port-Au-Prince can submit reports by text-message to asingle phone number.
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According to Hover, the clinic's soccer field has been converted into a refugee camp and the building itself, which was built on liquefiable soil in the former Port-au-Prince bay, has rotated almost a foot.
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We met up with Sebastian Petion, our driver, an all-around great person I have stayed in touch with, and he took us through the streets of Port-au-Prince.
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The small church of San Michel is tucked away in a narrow back street of Port-au-Prince.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE-The coins clanged as they bounced off the roof and she lay with her arms still wrapped around the cardboard box of ornamental mirrors she had grabbed from the abandoned building.
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A major part of this relief effort, U.S. medical evacuation missions called medivac that are swooping into Port-au-Prince to save lives.
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Bank collaborates with Google, Microsoft, Rochester Institute of Technology and others to gather high-definition images of damage in Port-au-Prince.
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So even if they had in other parts of the country like Cap-Haitien, which is a city north of Port-Au-Prince, very difficult to get down into Port-Au-Prince.
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The desperate peace moves came as gangs armed with guns and machetes rampaged through the streets of the capital Port-au-Prince in the latest outbreak of violence there.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE—Haitians turned out in large numbers and voted peacefully Sunday as a popular singer and a former first lady vied to be the next president of the beleaguered nation.
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The Haitian government's Preliminary Damage and Needs Assessment, a document said to have been largely drafted by Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive, was put forth in March and advocated an ambitious re-envisioning and decentralizing of Haiti, looking to "decongest," rather than rebuild as before, the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area while advocating a "refounding" of the Haitian state.
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In Port-au-Prince, two female health centres have been set up by the International Rescue Committee in the past week, providing rape victims with life-saving medical treatment such as retroviral drugs which protect against HIV.
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With most ofits basic infrastructure flattened and the majority of its citizensliving in temporary housing and tents, Port-au-Prince is beginning tothink about how it will rebuild itself.
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Last month in Port-au-Prince, President Rene Preval told our congressional delegation that Haiti needs to be "reconfigured," not "reconstructed.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti On a grassy rise at the east end of the battered airport, airmen from the 621st Contingency Response Wing worked through the predawn darkness Friday to bring a sliver of order in the chaos wrought by the Haiti earthquake that has killed thousands.
Air Force battles chaos at Haiti's airport
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L'ancien président américain Bill Clinton, émissaire spécial des Nations Unies en Haïti, a nié lundi à Port-au-Prince que l'aide humanitaire ait été trop "lente" à parvenir aux Haïtiens après le séisme de mardi.
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The National Hurricane Center said the storm was moving to the west-northwest at about 10 mph and it was centered about 60 mile south-southwest of Port-au-Prince.
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MSF-Belgium and Oxfam-GB have announced they will stop on 1 March the chlorination of 11 wells in Port-au-Prince that provide water for approximately 374,500 people.
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The most important, he says, is the "deconcentration" of half a million Haitians away from Port-au-Prince.
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Stegall didn't want his clients speaking one word to anyone until he had "debriefed" them, discussing with them what to say - and especially what not to say because the two volunteers were still being held in Port-au-Prince.
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No one can remain unmoved by the pictures of Port-au-Prince after the earthquake (the situation outside the capital remains unknown, but one can imagine).
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This month, human rights, labor rights, youth, and popular education organizations throughout Port-au-Prince are holding public colloquia on the dictatorship, featuring survivor testimony, showings of photos and documentaries, and discussion.
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The following day, Phillippe and a band of 200 insurgents armed with vintage rifles and M-16's (some of which, according to Le Monde's Caroit, were provided by the U. S.-armed Dominican military) captured Cap Haitien and began their advance on Port-au-Prince.
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The small church of San Michel is tucked away in a narrow back street of Port-au-Prince.
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The small church of San Michel is tucked away in a narrow back street of Port-au-Prince.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Oct 22, 2010 (IPS) - Some 1.3 million people have lived in makeshift camps throughout Port-au-Prince since the January earthquake devastated the city.
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In the slums and in the earthquake survivor camps of Port-au-Prince, people live in crowded insanitary conditions where the disease can spread quickly.
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A sewage drain separates the street and and a displacement camp in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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The small church of San Michel is tucked away in a narrow back street of Port-au-Prince.
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Caroline and her mother live in a rental home without electricity outside Port-au-Prince.
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Haitian woman dances after eating a mud pie in the volatile neighborhood of Cite-Soleil in Port-au-Prince February 9, 2006.
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The small church of San Michel is tucked away in a narrow back street of Port-au-Prince.
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The small church of San Michel is tucked away in a narrow back street of Port-au-Prince.
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Last July, when USA TODAY wrote about Leo a half-year after the earthquake, he and Therissa were living in a tent on the rubble-strewn streets of Port-au-Prince.
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