2010-03-08 21:42
US troops are withdrawing from the shattered capital leaving many Haitians anxious that aid may slow down and violence escalate.
2010-03-01 14:36
Haitians huddling together in the open after their killer earthquake are bracing for a new natural menace: The notoriously heavy rainy season.
2010-02-25 17:04
Haiti's supreme voodoo leader has vowed "war" after Evangelicals attacked a ceremony organised by his religion.
2010-02-23 18:18
Homeless victims of Haiti's earthquake say that police are trying to force them to leave their camp on the grounds of the prime minister's office .
2010-02-22 16:46
At the foot of rocky hills north of Haiti's earthquake-shattered capital Port-au-Prince, new settlements are sprouting as survivors flee the the stricken city.
2010-02-19 13:02
Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive says he is worried his government could face collapse as political opponents capitalise on its inability to respond strongly to the January 12 earthquake.
2010-02-18 21:27
The Haiti practice of poor families giving away children to wealthier acquaintances or relatives is known in the native Creole as 'restavek'.
2010-02-17 23:00
A Haitian judge will order the release of eight of 10 American missionaries accused of kidnapping children, while the remaining two will be held for further questioning.
2010-02-16 23:44
Rebuilding Haiti could cost up to $14bn, which would make the quake the most destructive natural disaster in modern history, a bank says.
2010-02-15 18:04
Relatives of the group of jailed missionaries thought a man who volunteered legal assistance - but who may be wanted for human trafficking - was a good Samaritan.
2010-02-12 23:00
Haiti's agriculture minister has urged international support for a $700m plan to bolster food production and create jobs to help the Haitians who have fled the capital.
2010-02-12 09:15
Haiti observes a national day of mourning to mark one month after a devastating quake killed at least 217 000 people.
2010-02-11 22:26
Rain has drenched quake survivors in the tent camps of the Haitian capital, a warning of fresh misery to come for the 1 million homeless after a devastating earthquake.
2010-02-10 20:12
Pilots have been increasingly reluctant to ferry injured Haitian children out of the country for treatment in the wake of the arrest of 10 Americans on charges of abduction.
2010-02-10 10:08
Haiti remains in a precarious situation with no clear idea of how to house one million people living in the streets, Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive has said.
2010-02-09 14:03
An apparent earthquake survivor has been dug out of rubble in Haiti, 27 days after Port-au-Prince was demolished, according to media reports.
2010-02-09 10:01
The UN has warned that it will cut off shipments of free medicine to Haitian hospitals that charge patients.
2010-02-08 18:07
Aid groups say they are launching an emergency vaccination campaign for 140 000 people in Haiti to protect them against measles and other diseases.
2010-02-07 07:25
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has hailed a G7 decision to cancel bilateral debt with Haiti where about a million people have been left homeless.
2010-02-07 18:10
Kerline Etienne raised her hands toward the sky and thanked God for returning her teenage daughter, the last person pulled alive from the rubble of Haiti's devastating earthquake.
2010-02-06 14:00
Former president Bill Clinton has pledged to try and get aid flowing in Haiti’s Port-au-Price, as he was met by angry Haitians protesting the slow arrival of help since last month’s quake.
2010-02-05 07:13
The death toll from Haiti's catastrophic earthquake has reached 212 000, the highest from a natural disaster in the Americas on record.
2010-02-04 12:11
Desperate Haitian parents have said they gave their children away willingly, trusting the American missionaries who promised to take them to a better life.
2010-02-03 13:25
The aid flooding into Haiti is not reaching earthquake victims quickly enough to stem growing unrest because of bottlenecks and violence.
2010-02-03 11:04
Haitian authorities have indefinitely postponed upcoming legislative elections amid lingering chaos and rising security concerns.
2010-02-02 23:12
The 33 infants and children that an American Christian group tried to smuggle out of quake-hit Haiti are being reunited with their families.
2010-02-02 13:06
The UN says the security situation in Haiti is "stable but potentially volatile" after an armed group attacked a food convoy.
2010-02-02 10:00
Former US President Bill Clinton, currently the UN special envoy to Haiti, will be named international co-ordinator for relief efforts in the earthquake-devastated country.
2010-02-01 20:05
International relief efforts to Haiti have been better than comparable efforts after the 2004 tsunami in South Asia.
2010-02-01 07:21
Haiti has warned of an increase in child trafficking following its devastating earthquake.
2010-01-31 19:19
Police in Haiti have charged 10 members of a US Christian ministry group on child trafficking charges.
2010-01-31 13:32
Schools in Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince, devastated by a catastrophic earthquake, are struggling to resume lessons.
2010-01-31 09:17
Ten Americans have been detained by Haitian police as they tried to bus 33 children across the border into the Dominican Republic, allegedly without proper documents.
2010-01-31 10:16
Spain has said it will provide Haiti with a DNA testing system to help reunite lost children with their families and combat the trafficking of minors.
2010-01-30 11:30
Haiti's desperate earthquake survivors face a new deadly threat as the UN reported a rise in cases of diarrhoea, measles and tetanus in squalid tent camps.
2010-01-29 22:05
The head of a US-based disaster relief group has expressed frustration with US forces in quake-hit Haiti, saying they were providing inadequate support to secure aid distribution efforts.
2010-01-29 15:02
A Cape Town-based business has presented a R5m donation to the victims of the earthquake in Haiti.
2010-01-29 07:22
Haiti's vulnerable quake victims are facing rising insecurity with criminals raping women in camps and violence erupting during handouts of sparse foreign aid.
2010-01-28 19:44
South Africans pledged nearly $100 000 to help Haiti's earthquake survivors during a telethon on SABC's Morning Live.
2010-01-28 11:16
United Nations agencies have urged donors to give "cash, not goods" towards the emergency relief effort of quake-hit Haiti.
2010-01-27 22:24
Was it luck or divine intervention that a house with a collection of 3 000 voodoo objects was mostly untouched by the earthquake?
2010-01-27 09:02
The US military says a man it pulled from the rubble in Port-au-Prince had been there for 12 days and not since the first quake struck two weeks ago.
2010-01-26 19:08
The US military could begin scaling back its involvement in Haiti within three to six months as other international organisations assume larger roles providing security and disaster relief.
2010-01-26 07:22
Haitian children made orphans by this month's catastrophic earthquake or separated from their parents face a growing threat.
2010-03-04 21:28
The Desarmes family left their native Haiti two weeks after the devastating January 12 earthquake, joining the eldest son in Chile for what seemed a refuge.
2010-02-27 20:21
Dominican authorities say they have repatriated 462 migrants who tried to cross the border from quake-devastated Haiti.
2010-02-23 18:19
Six US bound orphans seized by Haitian police despite having their papers in order remained in a government-run nursery more than two days later.
2010-02-23 18:04
An aftershock has caused panic on the streets of Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, six weeks after a massive quake devastated the city.
2010-02-22 21:11
The president of Haiti has said the death toll from his country's earthquake could reach 300 000 once all the bodies are recovered.
2010-02-19 11:35
The UN humanitarian chief has called for improved co-ordination of relief efforts to tackle massive challenges, including a lack of shelter and rubble removal, in Haiti.
2010-02-18 09:33
Almost three weeks after being charged with kidnapping for trying to take 33 children out of Haiti, eight American missionaries have arrived back in the US.
2010-02-17 17:05
French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrives in Haiti to assess relief efforts after last month's earthquake.
2010-02-16 19:01
It will take three years to clear the rubble left by Haiti's devastating earthquake, says President Rene Preval.
2010-02-13 08:07
Haitians have gathered at tearful ceremonies to mark one month since a huge quake shattered their country and killed more than 200 000 people.
2010-02-12 19:48
A Haitian prosecutor examining the case of 10 Americans charged with kidnapping says he has not yet reached a decision on whether to release them or not.
2010-02-11 22:26
A Haitian judge is recommending that the 10 missionaries who tried to take a busload of children out of the country be released.
2010-02-11 18:28
Elderly Haitians camping in tents outside their collapsed nursing home are getting by on one meal a day of rice and dried beans.
2010-02-10 14:09
Doctors now say the 28-year-old man trapped for 27 days could have survived on water and possibly some fruit beneath the rubble.
2010-02-09 22:33
Survivors of Haiti's catastrophic earthquake are fearing the onset of early spring rain, which threatens to cause landslides and bring about health problems.
2010-02-09 12:09
The struggling aid effort in Haiti has been hit by another setback as the UN halted deliveries to some survivors after discovering fake coupons.
2010-02-08 23:05
Cuban leader Fidel Castro says more than 1 000 Latin American doctors will open "dozens" of field hospitals in Haiti.
2010-02-08 08:10
Hundreds of Haitian earthquake survivors have protested in a suburb of the wrecked capital, accusing a district mayor of corruption and hoarding food aid provided by relief groups.
2010-02-07 23:22
The Haitian lawyer for 10 US missionaries charged with child kidnapping has allegedly tried to bribe the missionaries' way [out] of jail and as a result has been fired.
2010-02-06 08:00
Two Americans have been killed after their helicopter, which was participating in aid and recovery operations in earthquake-hit Haiti, crashed in the Dominican Republic, authorities say.
2010-02-05 21:28
Haitian police have arrested 100 of the 4 000 inmates who escaped from the capital's main prison when it was destroyed in a devastating earthquake.
2010-02-05 08:22
Ten US Christian missionaries have been charged with child abduction and conspiracy after they were caught trying to smuggle 33 children out of quake-hit Haiti.
2010-02-04 10:20
The death toll in the Haiti quake has swelled to 200 000 as angry protests over the slow arrival of aid flared, Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive has said.
2010-02-03 22:27
Countries, companies and individuals have promised more than $230m to the World Food Programme for its Haiti emergency operations.
2010-02-02 21:39
At a gravel pit where countless earthquake victims have been dumped, mourners turned a remembrance ceremony into one of the first political rallies since the disaster.
2010-02-02 20:10
Nearly half a million people have fled from Port-au-Prince for the Haitian countryside following the devastating earthquake.
2010-02-02 11:02
Haiti's prime minister has said that 10 Americans who tried to take a busload of children out of the country knew that "what they were doing was wrong".
2010-02-01 23:00
The 33 children rescued from an alleged kidnapping by Americans are visibly mistrustful of adults, clutching to each other for a little warmth.
2010-02-01 19:06
President Abdoulaye Wade says 50 Haitians have sought resettlement in Senegal after the earthquake that devastated their country.
2010-02-01 08:26
The UN's approach to give food mainly to women, the elderly and the disabled in Haiti has worked, despite some hiccups.
2010-01-31 18:08
The UN culture agency, Unesco, says it is pushing for an international ban on trade in Haitian artefacts to discourage pillaging.
2010-01-31 14:32
Haitian President Rene Preval has apologised for his long silence during the two and a half weeks since the earthquake that destroyed Port-au-Prince, claiming at least 180 000 lives.
2010-01-31 12:07
Several Haitians have been picked up in a boat off the Turks and Caicos Islands, the first group known to have fled since the earthquake.
2010-01-30 22:35
The US military has said it had suspended medical evacuations of injured Haitian earthquake victims until a row over who will pay for their care is settled.
2010-01-30 09:30
US soldiers in Haiti have halted a violent confrontation between looters and a private security guard who shot and killed one man inside an appliance store.
2010-01-29 21:05
With aid only trickling in, Haiti's quake survivors face rising insecurity with thousands of criminals on the loose and reports of rape and violence.
2010-01-29 18:02
Doctors and aid workers say treating the tens of thousands of Haitians injured by the earthquake is taxing the country's devastated hospitals.
2010-01-29 11:13
About 75% of Haiti's capital will have to be rebuilt after a devastating earthquake levelled much of the city, a UN envoy says.
2010-01-28 08:30
Rescuers have dragged a Haitian girl alive from the rubble 15 days after a devastating quake, in a rare moment of joy.
2010-01-28 08:31
The smallest survivors of Haiti's catastrophic earthquake are growing into one of the biggest problems in its aftermath.
2010-01-27 12:19
Nasa plans to conduct flights over earthquake faults in Haiti and the Dominican republic to capture radar images that could be studied for warnings signs of further temblors.
2010-01-26 22:17
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton "deeply resents" foreign criticism of the US response to the earthquake as two new aftershocks rattled weary Haitians.
2010-01-26 09:45
Rebuilding Haiti after a massive earthquake will take "at least 10 years", Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has told international donors.