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Death Toll in Gaza Could Reach 100,000 in 6 Months

Juan Cole / Informed Comment Feb 23, 2024 A joint report issued this week contends deaths will skyrocket due to starvation and disease unless a ceasefire can be reach immediately. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

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War Comes for Harvest in Sudan As People Starve

Pavan Kulkarni / Peoples Dispatch Jan 2, 2024 After capturing Gezira, a State in central Sudan that was producing 40% of its wheat, the RSF is set to battle the Sudanese Armed Forces to consolidate control over the country’s agricultural heartland. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Africa

Millions at Risk for Disease in War-Torn Sudan

Pavan Kulkarni / Peoples Dispatch Nov 21, 2023 Rawia Kamal, a health activist displaced after the paramilitary attacked her home, recounts the travails of being in war-torn Sudan with looming threat of diseases. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

‘Human Rights Champion’ John McCain Silent on Efforts to End War Crimes in Yemen

Adam H. Johnson / Truthdig Mar 14, 2018 When will the senator acknowledge Saudi Arabia's abuses in the poorest country in the Arab world and act? Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Photo of the Week: The Latest Devastation of Haiti

BLANK Oct 9, 2016 Why is Haiti so vulnerable to disaster? In addition to geography, there's a legacy of debt, poverty, political instability, foreign exploitation and negligence, corruption and violence. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

The U.N. in Haiti: Time to Adapt or Time to Go

Michael Deibert / Truthdig Sep 1, 2011 After seven years in Haiti, it is time for the UN peacekeeping mission to either significantly refocus its mission or close its operation and leave the business of governing and reconstruction to the Haitians themselvesIt is time for the U peacekeeping mission in Haiti to either significantly refocus its mission or close its operation completely. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Haiti’s Cholera Death Toll Rising

Staff / Truthdig Jan 1, 2011 The death toll in Haiti's cholera epidemic is rising. The toll now exceeds 3,300, official sources say, and the number of people infected has soared to 150,000 in just two months since the outbreak began. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Haiti Wraps Up an Unkind 2010

Staff / Truthdig Dec 25, 2010 It’s been quite a 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 and many of the aid dollars promised to help it recover. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

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More Than 1,000 Dead From Cholera Outbreak in Haiti

Staff / Truthdig Nov 17, 2010 Over the last year, Haitians have been hit by a catastrophic earthquake and harsh tropical storms, and now another kind of trouble has hit the Caribbean country: a cholera scourge that has already claimed more than 1,000 lives. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Haiti Braces for Future Quakes

Staff / Truthdig Nov 1, 2010 From earthquakes to cholera, Haiti can't seem to get a break. Geologists have now reported that the decimated country may be in serious risk of additional devastation. Scientists posit that “not all the geological strain that triggered the original quake” last Jan. 12 has been released. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Cholera Threatens Haiti

Staff / Truthdig Oct 24, 2010 A cholera outbreak that has killed about 200 people in rural Haiti is threatening to spread to the capital, Port-au-Prince, potentially endangering the hundreds of thousands of earthquake survivors crowded into squalid camps around the city. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )