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Wednesday 14 February 2018
Haiti leader: UK aid workers violated 'basic human decency'

By DANICA KIRKA to exploit the vulnerable
Associated Press in their most defenseless
LONDON (AP) — Haiti's moments," Moise said Tues-
president condemned the day. "What transpired is a
British charity Oxfam on violation of basic human
Tuesday for a sexual mis- decency."
conduct scandal, describ- Also Tuesday, Britain's char-
ing the alleged misbehav- ity watchdog opened an
ior of aid workers handling inquiry into how Oxfam
earthquake recovery ef- handled the allegations
forts as a violation of basic of sexual abuse in Haiti in
human decency. 2011.
The comments from Haitian Documents provided by
President Jovenel Moise Oxfam have led to further
add to the condemnation questions and suggest that
the anti-poverty charity has the charity might not have
received since the Times of “fully and frankly disclosed
London revealed last week material details about the
some Oxfam employees allegations at the time,”
paid for sex while working the Charity Commission
in Haiti among people dev- said.
astated by the 2010 earth- The investigation was
quake. launched a day after Ox-
Haiti's president Jovenel Moise speaks in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Haiti’s president has condemned "There is nothing more fam Great Britain’s deputy
Oxfam for a sex abuse scandal in his country, describing the actions of some of its staff as a viola-
tion of basic human decency. shameful than a sexual chief executive resigned
(AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery) predator using the veil of and apologized to the gov-
catastrophe as a means ernment and donors. q

Vendors look for salvageable items in the aftermath of a fire
that swept through a section of the Iron Market, also known
as Marche Hyppolite, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday Feb. 13,
2018.
( AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

Fire destroys most of historic

market in Haitian capital city

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) any deaths or injuries.
— A late-night blaze has The historic downtown
ravaged the principal mar- structure houses hundreds
ket in Haiti's capital even of market stalls and has
as the streets nearby were been a landmark since it
crowded with Carnival cel- was opened in 1891. It also
ebrants. suffered a devastating fire
Police said Tuesday they in 2008 and was nearly de-
are still trying to determine stroyed in the 2010 earth-
the cause of the blaze at quake. But it was rebuilt
the Iron Market, and said and reinaugurated in 2011.
they were not aware of q