{"id":189678,"date":"2010-01-17T02:48:52","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T07:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skyscrapercity.com\/showthread.php?t=1047185"},"modified":"2010-01-17T02:48:52","modified_gmt":"2010-01-17T07:48:52","slug":"breaking-news-senegal-offers-land-to-haitians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/189678","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS: Senegal Offers Land to Haitians."},"content":{"rendered":"<div><font face=\"Arial Black\"><font size=\"5\"><font color=\"Red\">Senegal offers land to Haitians .<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p>Abdoulaye Wade said Haitians could &quot;return to their origin&quot; <br \/>\nSenegal&#8217;s president says he will offer free land and &quot;repatriation&quot; to people affected by the earthquake in Haiti.<\/p>\n<p>President Abdoulaye Wade said Haitians were sons and daughters of Africa since Haiti was founded by slaves, including some thought to be from Senegal. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;The president is offering voluntary repatriation to any Haitian that wants to return to their origin,&quot; said Mr Wade&#8217;s spokesman, Mamadou Bemba Ndiaye. <\/p>\n<p>Tuesday&#8217;s earthquake killed tens of thousands and left many more homeless. <\/p>\n<p>Buildings have been reduced to rubble, the distribution of aid is slow, and people have been flooding out of the devastated capital, Port-au-Prince. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;Senegal is ready to offer them parcels of land &#8211; even an entire region. It all depends on how many Haitians come,&quot; Mr Bemba Ndiaye said. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;If it&#8217;s just a few individuals, then we will likely offer them housing or small pieces of land. If they come en masse we are ready to give them a region.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>The spokesman emphasised that if a region was given, it would be in a fertile part of the country rather than in its parched deserts, the Associated Press news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/8463921.stm\" >http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/8463921.stm<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senegal offers land to Haitians . Abdoulaye Wade said Haitians could &quot;return to their origin&quot; Senegal&#8217;s president says he will offer free land and &quot;repatriation&quot; to people affected by the earthquake in Haiti. President Abdoulaye Wade said Haitians were sons and daughters of Africa since Haiti was founded by slaves, including some thought to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}