HAITI: “Cash-for-Work” Seen as a Double-Edged Sword

All across Haiti, United Nations, bilateral and non- governmental agencies are running scores of "cash-for-work" programmes. But are they "working"?

Haiti’s 1.3 Million Camp Dwellers Waiting in Vain

Rosie Benjamin is just one of over 1.3 million people living in Haiti's 1,354 squalid refugee camps. She and 1,200 others are jammed into 300 tents and plastic tarp-shacks on a soccer field in Grand Goâve.

ANGOLA: Togo Footballers Attacked

Armed men have opened fire on a bus carrying Togo's national football squad to the Africa Cup of Nations tournament in Angola, killing the driver and wounding at least two players, officials have said.