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Food, aid rushed to storm-slammed HaitiGONAIVES, Haiti - Authorities fear that the death toll in the flooded city of Gonaives could rise into the hundreds as U.N. peacekeepers and aid groups rush food and water to tens of thousands left hungry by the combined devastation of Tropical Storm Hanna and Hurricane Ike. More » |
South Africans protest mass eviction order in courtJOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Dancing the toyi-toyi, stomping their feet and singing protest songs, more than 100 residents of the informal Joe Slovo settlement in Cape Town and their supporters rallied outside of South Africa's Constitutional Court last month in support of the community's right to adequate housing. More » |
