Jul 14 New Orleans Police Officers Indicted in Post-Katrina Shooting Case By Anna Shoup Six current and former New Orleans Police Department officers were indicted Tuesday in the latest in a series of cases looking into questionable police action after Hurricane Katrina. Four officers were charged in connection with the deaths of two… Continue reading
Jul 14 Haiti Aims to Move Residents Out of Tents, Back Into Habitable Homes By Talea Miller With 1.5 million Haitians still living in tent camps, international organizations and the government are struggling to find legally available land for new settlements and ways to decongest the existing camps. The government is now advising people who can return… Continue reading
Jul 14 Life in Haiti’s Tent Cities By Talea Miller More than 1,300 tent camps are housing an estimated 1.5 million people in Haiti displaced by a powerful earthquake in January. Some camps are well serviced by a variety of NGOs, but other more informal camps have little support. Continue reading
Jul 14 Watch In Haiti, Amputees Face Different Kind of Healing As part of his latest series of reports from Haiti, Ray Suarez details the road ahead for citizens who lost limbs after the country's devastating earthquake in January. Continue watching
Jul 13 Watch Fighting Poverty in Kenya by Selling Water Pumps to Poor Farmers Spencer Michels reports on the story of how a California man sees the chance to increase access to clean water in Kenya through the use of foot-pumps. Continue watching
Jul 12 Accused Terrorist Khadr Boycotts ‘Unjust’ Trial By Larisa Epatko GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba | The long road to trial for Omar Khadr, who was arrested eight years ago in Afghanistan at age 15 for allegedly throwing a grenade that killed a U.S. soldier, took another twist Monday when he decided… Continue reading
Jul 12 Haiti a Patchwork of Starts and Stops on Quake Recovery By Ray Suarez Six months after a powerful earthquake rocked Haiti, more than one million people are still homeless and the people of Port-au-Prince and surrounding regions continue to suffer the economic, physical and mental after-effects of the devastating temblor. The… Continue reading
Jul 12 Monday: BP Installing New Cap on Well; Twin Bombings Kill 64 in Uganda By Tom LeGro BP continues to install a tighter cap over its leaking oil well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico on Monday, saying it is ahead of its schedule to get the new, better cap in place. Continue reading
Jul 12 Watch Politics and Aid Intermingle in Haiti’s Recovery Margaret Warner talks with Ray Suarez, who has returned to Haiti six months after a devastating earthquake. Continue watching
Jul 12 Watch Somali Group Claims Responsibility for Suicide Blasts in Uganda For more on the Somali terror group that claimed responsibility for the Uganda bombing, Gwen Ifill talks to an expert on the region. Continue watching