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Port-au-Prince

Port-au-Prince (; ; Haitian Creole: Pòtoprens; ) is the capital and largest city of the Caribbean country of Haiti.

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Build it and they will come: Soccer stadium seen as seed for rejuvenating notorious Haiti slum

A local sports hero, a New York real estate developer and a well-known architect are teaming up to build a soccer stadium in Haiti's notorious Cite Soleil, hoping to revive the seaside shantytown known throughout the hemisphere for its extreme poverty and gang battles.

Foreign investors in Haiti have largely directed their efforts at rebuilding from a devastating 2010 earthquake, focusing their funds on Port-au-Prince and the overlapping cities that make up the capital and the country's sleepy coastlines.But ex-Haiti soccer star Robert "Boby" Duval has masterminded the $5 million stadium project, which he says will address problems that predate the 2010 disaster. Developer Delos LLC and architect Carlos Zapata are working with him on the project in a slum on the outskirts of the capital, full of tin shacks and open sewage canals formerly shunned by investors, avoided by diplomats and at one point considered so dangerous that U.N. peacekeepers would only enter it in armored vehicles."Cit...

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  1. Cholera Outbreak Spreads to Haiti's Capital

    At least five people who traveled from rural Haiti to the country’s capital tested positive for cholera when they arrived in Port-au-Prince , health officials said S...

  2. Help and recover: Miami Heat get a close look at Haiti, where despair and frustration reign

    PORT-AU-PRINCE , Haiti (AP) — As the charter jet began backing away from the terminal, Ginel Thermosey slowly turned around to shake hands with the medical student s...

  3. CDC study shows Haiti cholera has changed, experts say it suggests disease becoming endemic

    The cholera strain in Haiti is evolving, researchers reported Thursday, a sign that it may be taking deeper root in the nation less than two years after it appeared ...

  4. Haiti police, UN crack down armed men pushing to restoration of army

    Haitian police and U.N. peacekeepers have begun cracking down on bands of armed men lobbying for the country to restore its armed forces, a U.N. spokesman said Monda...

  5. Defying image of drop-in celebrity, Sean Penn settles down in Haiti for long-term role

    Sean Penn no longer lives in a tent, surrounded by some 40,000 desperate people camped on a muddy golf course. And he no longer rushes about the capital with a Glock...

  6. 8 travel apps that could save your life

    While there is no way to know where and when to be ready for a travel disaster, these eight apps can solve the problem of how. These apps will prepare you for the wo...

  7. Cholera Outbreak Spreads to Haiti's Capital

    PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Health workers feared a surge of cholera cases in the shantytowns and muddy tent camps of Haiti's capital as suspected cases piled up Tuesda...

  8. Clinton kicks off commission's work in Haiti, pledges to speed-up reconstruction process

    PORT-AU-PRINCE , Haiti (AP) — Former U.S. President Bill Clinton officially inaugurated the commission overseeing Haiti's post-earthquake reconstruction on Thursday,...

  9. Haiti: A year after the earthquake, still waiting for reconstruction

    The man's body lay face down, his white dress shirt shining like wax in the sun, as he was unearthed in the ruins of a Port-au-Prince restaurant a year after the ear...

  10. Found in Haiti quake rubble, a child is rescued _ and orphaned again after adoption freeze

    PORT-AU-PRINCE , Haiti (AP) — Time was up, not 10 minutes into the visit. The social worker went to pull the 3-year-old orphan out of the arms of the woman he calls ...

  11. Small-scale flooding reported in Gonaives, northwest Haitian city housing quake refugees

    PORT-AU-PRINCE , Haiti (AP) — Haitian civil protection officials say rains have caused small floods in the northwestern city of Gonaives.Civil protection director Ma...

  12. Black Entertainment TV founder announces project for building materials factories in Haiti

    PORT-AU-PRINCE , Haiti (AP) — The founder of the U.S. cable TV company Black Entertainment Television has announced a project for factories that will build construct...

  1. Investors plan soccer stadium for Haiti shantytown

    A local sports hero, a New York real estate developer and a well-known architect are teaming up to build a soccer stadium in Haiti's notorious Cite Soleil, hoping to...

  2. 2 Americans locked up as Haiti gov't cracks down on pro-army advocates

    Haiti moved to crack down on a band of former and would-be soldiers who had been staging protests for more than a year, closing two old military bases they had occup...

  3. Former Haitian official gets 9-year prison sentence in telecom bribery case

    A former senior executive at Haiti's state-run telecommunications company was sentenced Monday to nine years in federal prison for money laundering offenses tied to ...

  4. Gold! Haitians hope ore finds will spur economic boom from mining for gold, copper and silver

    Its capital is blighted with earthquake rubble. Its countryside is shorn of trees, chopped down for fuel. And yet, Haiti's land may hold the key to relieving centuri...

  5. Around the World: Riots in Port au Prince

    Rioters protest Haiti's disputed elections

  6. Saving Lives in Port-au-Prince

    Federal Emergency Task Force One rescued six people in quake-ravaged Haiti

  7. Haiti capital to add hundreds of new hotel rooms, raising hope for more investment

    Glimmers of hope are coming to this devastated capital and its surrounding cities, as the concrete Royal Oasis hotel rises over a metropolitan area still filled with...

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