Following political infighting over reconstruction contracts, Prime Minister Garry Conille’s departure after just four months in office on Friday complicates the country’s efforts to rebuild two years after a devastating earthquake.
Melissa Bell meets Laurent Lamothe, Haitian Foreign Minister. It is now just over two years since a devastating earthquake hit Haiti, already the poorest country in the Americas, killing over 250,000. Since then, out of the aid that was pledged by the international community, only half has been spent and 500,000 people in the capital Port-au-Prince remain homeless.
We have all the latest on the race to the White House as the Republican Party gears up to pick its Presidential challenger to Barack Obama. Next, compensation at last for the thousands of American women sterilized against their will in North Carolina. Finally, two years after the devastating earthquake, our team heads to Haiti to find out what became of the billions of dollars promised in aid to rebuild the country.
Two years after the earthquake that devastated Haiti, the country is struggling to get back on its feet. Haiti's Prime Minister promised 2012 would be a year of reconstruction and economic recovery, but progress has been frustratingly slow. Big challenges lie ahead for recently elected President Michel Martelly: around half a million Haitians still live in makeshift tents.
Papers look at the death of the French journalist Gilles Jacquier in Homs in Syria. There's also coverage of the death of the Iranian nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan in Tehran. As well reports on Haiti, two years on from the quake. Also, power napping in the office. That's the focus for this Thursday 12th January 2012.
Two years after a devastating 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck the island of Haiti, killing between 200,000-300,000 people and displacing scores more, almost 520,000 survivors still live under tarpaulin in camps dotted around the capital.
There’s anger in Haiti as locals say UN forces helping to rebuild the country after last year’s earthquake are actually doing more harm than good. Also, we meet a homeless young man who is fighting American authorities so he can live in his car. Finally, we head to Brazil for a special report on homophobia. Charities say discrimination is rife and some 200 homosexuals were killed last year alone.
Haitian President Michel Martelly (pictured) scored a victory Tuesday after the Senate approved his choice of primer minister, Garry Conille. Two previous nominations by Martelly were rejected.
In Haiti, water has become synonymous with death. The lack of sanitation coupled with poor hygiene has resulted in an outbreak of cholera - not seen for over a century - in this country still recovering from the devastating earthquake. Despite international aid, it seems to be a losing battle against this deadly disease.
France 24's New York correspondent Nathan King meets Alain Le Roy, the outgoing UN Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations. He reviews some of the key political and humanitarian crises he has handled during the last three years, such as Congo or Haiti, and explains the challenges of the UN's peacekeeping missions.
