HAITI - Poor forced to use dirt as food
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP): It was lunchtime in one of Haiti's worst slums, and Charlene Dumas was eating mud. With food prices rising, Haiti's poorest cannot afford even a daily plate of rice, and some take desperate measures to fill their bellies....
GUYANA - Ethnic relations group condemns killings
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, (CMC): Chairman of the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) Bishop Juan Edghill has condemned the killing of 11 people in the East Coast Demerara village of Lusignan on Saturday and warned that the massacre places the country on the brink ...
ST LUCIA - Opposition wants Taiwan donation probe
CASTRIES, St Lucia (CMC): Opposition Leader Dr Kenny Anthony yesterday called on Prime Minister Stephenson King to launch an investigation into whether government ministers received money during the recent state visit by Taiwanese president Chen...
'Kenya leaders accountable'
GENEVA (AP): The U.N.adviser on genocide warned Kenya's political leaders that they could be held accountable for the violence sweeping the East African country. Francis Deng, the U.N. secretary-general's special adviser for the prevention of genocide...
KENYA - Opposition lawmaker murdered
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP):Gunmen killed an opposition lawmaker in Nairobi and police and soldiers in helicopters fired on crowds in the Rift Valley yesterday, the latest flare-up of the ethnic fighting that has gripped Kenya since last month's disputed...
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