Topic: Port-au-Prince
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Two foreign aid workers with Doctors Without Borders in quake-hit Haiti were kidnapped and held for nearly a week before being freed early on Thursday, the international medical charity said. "Two of my colleagues, two women, were abducted last Friday. They were released early this morning ... they are in good health and in good shape," Michel Peremans, spokesman ...
President Barack Obama meets Wednesday with Haitian President Rene Preval, renewing his pledge of US support for efforts to rebuild the quake-shattered Caribbean nation. Topping the agenda for the meeting, which comes ahead of an international donors' conference later this month, were ongoing relief, recovery, and reconstruction efforts in Haiti. Preval is seeking billions of dollars to help rebuild his ...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haitian President Rene Preval plans to tell U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday that food aid to the earthquake-devastated Caribbean nation should be stopped because of the risk of damaging its economy. The two men will meet at the White House in the wake of a January 12 quake that killed 230,000 people, according to Haitian ...
