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Haïti – Radio Boukman resumes broadcasting two weeks after director’s murder
Reporters Without Borders hails the courage and perseverance of the staff of Radio Boukman, who resumed broadcasting on 20 March, 15 days after its director-general, Jean Liphète Nelson, was gunned down, and who are determined to maintain his commitment to help the population of Cité Soleil, the Port-au-Prince district where the community radio is based. “The radio station’s programming has resumed and we are continuing to broadcast from our studios in Cité Soleil despite the many suggestions (…)
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Haïti – Cité Soleil in mourning for murdered community radio station manager
Reporters Without Borders is deeply saddened by the news that radio journalist Jean Liphète Nelson was gunned down yesterday in Cité Soleil, the poorest neighbourhood of the capital, Port-au-Prince. The manager of Radio Boukman, a community and educational radio station based in Cité Soleil, Nelson was widely respected for his humanitarian commitment to serving the inhabitants of this politically sensitive district. Aged 38, he was the father of five children. “We had several meetings with (…)
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Haïti – Radio journalist gunned down in Port-au-Prince, motive unclear
Reporters Without Borders is dismayed to learn that Jean Richard Louis-Charles, a 30-year-old journalist working for Radio Kiskeya, one of Port-au-Prince’s most popular radio stations, was fatally shot twice in the head yesterday near the capital’s central Champs-de-Mars square. Another man at the scene, named as Jean Wilner Duperval, was shot dead on the spot by a plain-clothes policeman. The police recovered the gun used to kill Louis-Charles and, according to news agencies, quoting a (…)
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Haïti – Revival of journalism lags behind media reconstruction
Haiti will tomorrow mark the first anniversary of the “35 seconds” that devastated Port-au-Prince and surrounding areas and caused some 300,000 deaths. Today reconstruction is more of a hope or a prayer than a reality, contrasting with the international community’s mobilization immediately after the earthquake and the massive NGO presence. “Goudou Goudou, reconstruction’s ignored voices,” a web-documentary by Benoît Cassegrain and Giordano Cossu of the NGO Solidar’IT, will be screened tomorrow on (…)
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Brasile, Droga e favelas: Esercito garantirà ordine
L’esercito brasiliano garantirà una missione di peacekeeping nelle favelas di Rio de Janeiro, ex roccaforte dei narcotrafficanti ormai occupata dalla polizia. Lo hanno annunciato il ministro della Difesa, Nelson Jobim, e il governatore dello stato, Sergio Cabral. Si tratta di “mantenere l’ordine e la pace” nelle favelas finchè la polizia sarà completamente insediata, ha precisato [...]
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Haïti – Media get off relatively lightly in post-election rioting, but for how much longer?
Reporters Without Borders is worried about the dangers for Haitian and foreign journalists from the rioting that has shaken the country since the widely disputed results of the general elections were announced on 7 December. Although the media have so far been largely spared, we urge the supporters of the various parties and alliances to refrain from turning the media into hostages of their political rivalry. We have been concerned about several recent incidents involving journalists and (…)
