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Port-au-Prince refugees flock to Haiti's inland to seek a new life
8:32 AM on 01/28/2010
ST. MARC, HAITI - Journal Yprinaa and Sajouste Ferlande, both 21, trekked with only the clothes they wore the Tuesday when the earthquake hit...
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Restaurant owner serves up relief for fellow Haitians
2:32 PM on 01/19/2010
VIDEO - Muncheez was the hottest hangout in town before Haiti's deadly earthquake, and in a way, it still is...
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From student to homeless in seconds - a survivor's story
5:02 PM on 01/18/2010
VIDEO - This economics major went from a classroom to a one-room tent--literally overnight.
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Port-au-Prince school transforms into refuge for quake victims
3:10 PM on 01/18/2010
VIDEO - theGrio's Todd Johnson speaks with Marc Germaine, who has reopened a Port-au-Prince school and transformed it into a refuge for earthquake victims...
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Refugee in America brings soap to Uganda
7:41 AM on 11/06/2009
VIDEO - A man who moved to the U.S. from Africa is launching an extraordinary act of kindness...
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Somali refugee camps are "barely fit for humans"
10:45 AM on 09/03/2009
Hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees are jammed into camps that are "barely fit for humans," with poor sanitation and little access to water and medicine, an international aid agency said...
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White South African granted refugee status in Canada
12:06 PM on 09/02/2009
A white man from South Africa has been given refugee status in Canada after claiming persecution, his lawyer said, angering many in his home country where race remains a highly sensitive issue.
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Florida capsized boat survivor gives birth to son (video)
2:07 PM on 05/27/2009
Delray Beach, FL - A Haitian woman who narrowly escaped the sinking of a smuggler's boat two weeks ago has now given birth to a healthy baby boy in a Florida hospital. Lexilia Lexidort was pregnant when she made the dangerous trip across the ocean. The boat capsized off the...
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Alleged Haitian smuggler arrested in boating death (video)
6:50 PM on 05/18/2009
Jimmy Metellus, a Haitian man, accused of piloting a boat overloaded with migrants that overturned off the coast of south Florida, could be facing the death penalty. Metellus is charged with alien smuggling that resulted in death Metellus was among 16 survivors rescued last week from the water, after the...
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