Haiti Food Riots

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The Mahalo Top 7

1. BBC News: View From Haiti: Aid Worker (April 10, 2008)
2. Times Online: Rioters Return to Capital of Haiti... (April 10, 2008)  
   • "Rioters returned to the streets in Port-au-Prince a day after UN peacekeepers had to fire rubber bullets to prevent hungry Haitians from storming the presidential palace."
3. National Post: Haiti Food Riots Ease but Critics Demand PM’s Head (April 10, 2008)
4. San Francisco Chronicle: Looters Running Wild in Haiti's Food Riots (April 10, 2008)
5. The Guardian: Food Riots Grip Haiti (April 9, 2008)
6. Los Angeles Times: 3 Killed in Haiti Amid Food Riots, Clashes (April 5, 2008)
7. YouTube Video: Deadly Food Riots in Haiti (Time: 1:40)

Haiti Food Riots News

• Google News: Haiti Food Riots
• NPR: Spiraling Food Prices Buffet Poverty-Stricken Haiti (April 18, 2008)
• BBC News: Haitian senators vote to fire PM (April 12, 2008)
• Reuters: Haiti Senate fires prime minister over food riots (April 12, 2008)
• Washington Post: Haiti cuts cost of rice to stop food riots (April 12, 2008)
• Relief Web (Press Release): Haiti food riots (April 11, 2008)
• Reuters: Haiti Food Riots Ease but Critics Demand PM's Head (April 10, 2008)
  • "Too little, too late. That's the feeling that your proposals have provoked. It is obvious that the majority of the people don't believe any more in the capacity of your government to take courageous measures to ease the misery that the population is facing daily."
• Agence France-Presse: Haiti Lawmakers Urge PM to Quit Amid Food Protests (April 10, 2008)
• International Herald Tribune: Haitian President's Calls for Tax Cuts Fails... (April 9, 2008)  
• BBC News: Hungry Mob Attacks Haiti Palace (April 9, 2008)
• MSNBC: 4 Dead in Haiti Food Riots (April 5, 2008)
• BBC News: Food Riots Turn Deadly in Haiti (April 5, 2008)

Haiti Food Riots Blogs and Commentaries

• Google Blog Search: Haiti Food Riots
• Christian Science Monitor: Haitian leader's answer to food crisis doesn't satisfy critics (April 11, 2008)
• News & Views (NPR): Haitians Riot Over Sharply Rising Food Prices (April 9, 2008)
• FP Passport: Food-Riot Watch: Port-au-Prince Under Siege (April 8, 2008)
• AIDG Blog: Food Riots in Haiti (April 8, 2008)