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Rights group slams China firm over DR Congo workersKinshasa (AFP) Jan 25, 2010 A Chinese construction group is inflicting "unacceptable" working conditions on its Congolese labourers in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a leading African human rights group charged Monday. It said workers were employed without contracts, hours were not respected, salaries were paid at less than the official rate, people were unfairly fired and there was no security and little medical care. The construction group, China Railway Engineering Corporation (Crec), was slammed by the African Assoc ... read more |
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US activates Coast Guard reservists for HaitiWashington (AFP) Jan 19, 2010 Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Tuesday called up to 900 US Coast Guard reservists to duty to serve in Haiti following the devastating January 12 earthquake. President Barack Obama on Sunday issued an executive order authorizing the mobilization of military reserves to help quake-hit Haiti, particularly medical staff to work on hospital ships and Coast Guard staff to secure the ports. The United States, already stretched fighting two wars in Iraq and Afgha ... read more |
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Geneva (AFP) Jan 18, 2010Aid agencies said a huge international relief operation nearly a week after Haiti's devastating earthquake was gaining pace on Monday, but one warned that survivors were growing increasingly desperate. UN agencies and the Red Cross said field hospitals and food distribution had multiplied in and around the capital Port-au-Prince, where the magnitude 7.0 quake wrought huge destruction, leavin ... more  
Port-Au-Prince (AFP) Jan 17, 2010Despairing Haitians prayed in church ruins Sunday as rescuers raced against time to unearth quake survivors and the UN vowed to speed up desperately needed supplies of food, water and medicine. The government said 70,000 bodies had been buried in mass graves since the 7.0 earthquake flattened much of the impoverished Caribbean nation on January 12, triggering a massive humanitarian crisis. ... more 
Port-Au-Prince (AFP) Jan 17, 2010Rescuers pulled three survivors from the rubble Sunday five days after the Haiti earthquake, but tensions were growing among a desperate population as police opened fire on looters, killing one man. After hours of painstaking digging through the ruins, a team from Florida unearthed a seven-year-old girl, a man aged 34 and a 50-year-old woman in the ruins of a store as dawn broke in the capital, Port-au-Prince. Later hundreds of rioters ransacked Hyppolite market in the heart of the devastated city as survivors besieged hospitals and make-shift field clinics, some carrying the injured on their backs or on carts. ... more |
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Obama vows US help for Haiti, aid operation buildsWashington (AFP) Jan 14, 2010 President Barack Obama promised Haitians Thursday they would not be forgotten, offering 100 million dollars in immediate earthquake aid and the backing of every element of US power. A large-scale US military and civilian aid operation gained momentum with Washington sending rescue teams, ships, helicopters, planes, a floating hospital, emergency supplies and more than 5,000 ground troops. "To the people of Haiti, we say clearly and with conviction, you will not be forsaken, you will ... read more |
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