Georgianne Nienaber: "Ayiti Kale Je" Video Offers Fearless Look at Haiti's Christmas Cholera

"Ayiti Kale Je" Video Offers Fearless Look at Haiti's Christmas Cholera
In the video "Why Has Cholera Hit Haiti So Hard," Ayiti Kale Je Journalist Samia Salomon engages the camera boldly and confidently, terming herself a "feminist journalist" as she charges that the government of Haiti has "never respected" the people's right to Clean Water and sanitation. Salomon fearlessly dives into her report about the hard realities of latrines or lack thereof; people defecating in rivers and Plastic Bags because there is no place else to "go;" and video of feces piled openl...

Haiti urged to halt cholera anti-voodoo lynchings
By Joseph Guyler Delva Port-au-Prince | Thu Dec 23, 2010 6:06pm EST Port-au-Prince (Reuters) - The head of Haiti's voodoo religion appealed to authorities Thursday to halt bloody lynchings of voodoo priests by people who blame them for causing the Caribbean country's deadly Cholera epidemic. Since the epidemic started in mid-October, at least 45 male and female voodoo priests, known respectively as "houngan" and "manbo," have been killed. Many of the Victims were hacked to death and mutilated...

Haiti cholera deaths near 3,000
Port-au-Prince - The number of people who have died since the Cholera outbreak in late October has risen to 2,591 according to figures released by Ministry of Health here yesterday. It said that a total of 121,518 people have been affected by the water borne disease with 63,711 having received treatment at various Hospitals. Health Care officials said the epidemic has spread to all of Haiti's 10 provinces, with the Artibonite in the northwest being the hardest hit, where more than 800 people ...

Haiti urged to halt cholera anti-voodoo lynchings
Port-au-Prince (Reuters) - The head of Haiti's voodoo religion appealed to authorities Thursday to halt bloody lynchings of voodoo priests by people who blame them for causing the Caribbean country's deadly Cholera epidemic. Since the epidemic started in mid-October, at least 45 male and female voodoo priests, known respectively as "houngan" and "manbo," have been killed. Many of the Victims were hacked to death and mutilated by machetes, Max Beauvoir, the "Ati" or supreme leader of Haitian voo...

45 people lynched amid Haiti cholera fears: officials
Port-au-Prince - Angry Haitian mobs have lynched at least 45 people in recent weeks, accusing them of spreading a Cholera outbreak that has killed over 2,500 people across the country, officials said Wednesday. The number included at least 14 suspected sorcerers previously known to have been lynched in the far southwestern region of Grand'Anse as local people feared they were spreading Cholera with a magical substance. The area has been largely spared by the outbreak. "We have counted 40 peop...

"Christmas of misery" for many in calamity-hit Haiti
Port-au-Prince (Reuters) - Maritza Monfort is singing along to A Christmas Carol in Creole on the radio, but the Haitian mother of two is struggling to lift her spirits. "I sing to ease my pain. If I think too much, I'll die," said Monfort, 38, one of over a million Haitians made Homeless by a January Earthquake that plunged the poor, French-speaking Caribbean nation into the most calamitous year of its history. With a raging Cholera epidemic and election turmoil heaping more death and hardship...

HORROR: 45 people lynched amid Haiti cholera terror...
PORT-AU-PRINCE — Angry Haitian mobs have lynched at least 45 people in recent weeks, accusing them of spreading a Cholera outbreak that has killed over 2,500 people across the country, officials said Wednesday. The number included at least 14 suspected sorcerers previously known to have been lynched in the far southwestern region of Grand'Anse as local people feared they were spreading Cholera with a magical substance. The area has been largely spared by the outbreak. "We have counted 40 ...

'Christmas of misery' for many in Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE - Maritza Monfort is singing along to A Christmas Carol in Creole on the radio, but the Haitian mother of two is struggling to lift her spirits. “I sing to ease my pain. If I think too much, I’ll die,” said Monfort, 38, one of over a million Haitians made Homeless by a January Earthquake that plunged the poor, French-speaking Caribbean nation into the most calamitous year of its history. With a raging Cholera epidemic and election turmoil heaping more death and h...

"Christmas of misery" for many in calamity-hit Haiti
By Joseph Guyler Delva Port-au-Prince | Fri Dec 24, 2010 1:14pm EST Port-au-Prince (Reuters) - Maritza Monfort is singing along to A Christmas Carol in Creole on the radio, but the Haitian mother of two is struggling to lift her spirits. "I sing to ease my pain. If I think too much, I'll die," said Monfort, 38, one of over a million Haitians made Homeless by a January Earthquake that plunged the poor, French-speaking Caribbean nation into the most calamitous year of its history. With a raging...

"Christmas of misery" for many in calamity-hit Haiti
By Joseph Guyler Delva Port-au-Prince | Fri Dec 24, 2010 1:14pm EST Port-au-Prince (Reuters) - Maritza Monfort is singing along to A Christmas Carol in Creole on the radio, but the Haitian mother of two is struggling to lift her spirits. "I sing to ease my pain. If I think too much, I'll die," said Monfort, 38, one of over a million Haitians made Homeless by a January Earthquake that plunged the poor, French-speaking Caribbean nation into the most calamitous year of its history. With a raging...

Jihad Christmas: Christmas Eve bombings in Nigeria kill 31, Hundreds Hospitalized
Muslims are setting off bombs across the world on this, the holiest day for Christians....... here and here Obama say, "Respect it!" Daisy Khan say, "the era of Extremism is over!"  Pamela Geller say, "Defeat it!" Christmas Eve bombings in Nigeria kill 31  CNN hat tip John Jay Five blasts went off in the Nigerian city of Jos Friday night as residents were celebrating Christmas Eve, leaving 31 dead, a regional government official said. Choji Gyang, a sp...

Haiti mobs lynch voodoo priests
Voodoo priests in Haiti are being lynched by mobs who blame them for spreading Cholera, the country's government has said. At least 45 people have been lynched in recent weeks as Haiti continues to be ravaged by a cholera epidemic. Haiti's communications minister has made an appeal for the lynchings to end and called for a campaign to ensure people understand how cholera spreads. More than 2,500 Haitians have died from the water-borne disease since October. Another 121,000 people have ...

Haiti Wraps Up an Unkind 2010
California Count Off by 1.5 Million? David Hockney’s ‘Fresh Flowers’: Techno-Art or iHackery? Last January’s quake in Haiti devastated the country and killed an estimated quarter of a million people. It’s been quite the year for Haiti. With election turmoil, a Cholera epidemic and manifest misery almost a year after one of the most destructive Earthquakes of recent times, Haiti still awaits reconstruction of its country and many of the aid dollars promised to help ...

Mobs killing voodoo doctors for cholera
The Cholera outbreak hit Haiti after the January Earthquake that killed about 220,000 people, but angry mobs are now blaming the voodoo priests for spreading the disease, CNN reported. "People who practice voodoo have nothing to do with the Cholera epidemic," said Max Beauvoir, the head of a voodoo organization in the Caribbean country. Forty of the Victims were found in one area in southwest Haiti; some were killed with machetes and some were burned alive by mobs that used Gasoline and tires to...

Haiti urged to halt anti-voodoo lynchings
PORT-AU-PRINCE - The head of Haiti’s voodoo religion appealed to authorities Thursday to halt bloody lynchings of voodoo priests by people who blame them for causing the Caribbean country’s deadly Cholera epidemic. Since the epidemic started in mid-October, at least 45 male and female voodoo priests, known respectively as “houngan” and “manbo,” have been killed. Many of the Victims were hacked to death and mutilated by machetes, Max Beauvoir, the “Ati...

Haiti urged to halt lynchings of voodoo priests
PORT-AU-PRINCE — The head of Haiti's voodoo religion appealed to authorities Thursday to halt bloody lynchings of voodoo priests by people who blame them for causing the Caribbean country's deadly Cholera epidemic. Since the epidemic started in mid-October, at least 45 male and female voodoo priests, known respectively as "houngan" and "manbo," have been killed. Many of the Victims were hacked to death and mutilated by machetes, Max Beauvoir, the "Ati" or supreme leader of Haitian v...

45 people lynched amid Haiti cholera fears: officials
Source: ASIAONE NEWS 45 people lynched amid Haiti Cholera fears: officials Thu, Dec 23, 2010 AFP Port-au-Prince, HAITI - Angry Haitian mobs have lynched at least 45 people in recent weeks, accusing them of spreading a Cholera outbreak that has killed over 2,500 people across the country, officials said Wednesday. The number included at least 14 suspected sorcerers previously known to have been lynched in the far southwestern region of Grand'Anse as local people feared they were spreading cholera...

Travelers to Haiti Are Bringing Cholera to United States
Since mid-October, health officials in Haiti have been battling a Cholera outbreak that has now spread to the Dominican Republic and Florida, US federal health officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, reported today. The Cholera strains in the Dominican Republic and Florida are "indistinguishable from the strain causing the Haiti outbreak," the CDC reports in the December 24 edition of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. "Several confirme...

Haiti Cholera Fears Set Off Lynchings
(AFP) - Angry Haitian mobs have lynched at least 45 people in recent weeks, accusing them of spreading a Cholera outbreak that has killed over 2,500 people across the country, officials said Wednesday. The number included at least 14 suspected sorcerers previously known to have been lynched in the far southwestern region of Grand'Anse, as local people feared they were spreading Cholera with a magical substance. The area has been largely spared by the outbreak. "We have counted 40 people dead in ...

Voodoo killings reportedly rise in Haiti epidemic
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - At least 45 people have been killed across Haiti due to accusations they are using "black magic" to spread Cholera, the director of a Voodoo association said Friday. Most of the killings are occurring in the southern coastal town of Jeremie, where people are being lynched, set on fire and attacked with machetes, said Max Beauvoir, a Voodoo priest. But he said killings also have been reported in Cap Haitien and the Central Plateau. ...

Voodoo Killings Reportedly Rise in Haiti Epidemic
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- At least 45 people have been killed across Haiti due to accusations they are using "black magic" to spread Cholera, the director of a Voodoo association said Friday. Most of the killings are occurring in the southern coastal town of Jeremie, where people are being lynched, set on fire and attacked with machetes, said Max Beauvoir, a Voodoo priest. But he said killings also have been reported in Cap Haitien and the Central Plateau....

Voodoo killings reportedly rise in Haiti epidemic
At least 45 people have been killed across Haiti due to accusations they are using "black magic" to spread Cholera, the director of a Voodoo association said Friday. Most of the killings are occurring in the southern coastal town of Jeremie, where people are being lynched, set on fire and attacked with machetes, said Max Beauvoir, a Voodoo priest. But he said killings also have been reported in Cap Haitien and the Central Plateau....

Voodoo killings rise in Haiti epidemic
At least 45 people have been killed across Haiti due to accusations they are using "black magic" to spread Cholera, the director of a Voodoo association said on Friday. Most of the killings are occurring in the southern coastal town of Jeremie, where people are being lynched, set on fire and attacked with machetes, said Max Beauvoir, a Voodoo priest. But he said killings also have been reported in Cap Haitien and the Central Plateau....

Voodoo killings reportedly rise in Haiti epidemic
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - At least 45 people have been killed across Haiti due to accusations they are using "black magic" to spread Cholera, the director of a Voodoo association said Friday. Most of the killings are occurring in the southern coastal town of Jeremie, where people are being lynched, set on fire and attacked with machetes, said Max Beauvoir, a Voodoo priest. But he said killings also have been reported in Cap Haitien and the Central Plateau....

Bill Clinton's Lies
Few people took the floor; among them the Venezuelan ambassador who, as one of the most important donors, spoke briefly, using heartfelt, clear and accurate words. Clinton took up almost all of the time in a meting which began at 5:30 pm and ended at midnight. The Cuban ambassador, as a key participant, was there silent witness at the request of Haiti and Santo Domingo. He was not conceded the right to say a single word, although he was a witness to a meeting that accomplished absolutely nothi...