{"id":634,"date":"2010-01-15T23:25:15","date_gmt":"2010-01-16T04:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delicious.com\/url\/b601007a3f68bce6454f7a189193ca6d#tomathon"},"modified":"2010-01-15T23:25:15","modified_gmt":"2010-01-16T04:25:15","slug":"haiti-death-of-an-african-un-worker-ties-guinea-to-port-au-prince","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/01\/haiti-death-of-an-african-un-worker-ties-guinea-to-port-au-prince\/","title":{"rendered":"Haiti: Death of an African UN worker ties Guinea to Port au Prince"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Among those killed in the Haiti UN building was Mamadou Bah, son of a prominent Dinguiraye Peul family.  Educated in Lome and Paris, Bah worked in New York as well as Europe Africa and Haiti.  Eventually taking joint Franco-Guinean nationality, Bah rose to become chief spokesperson for Minustah, and spearheaded the construction, through the Biblioth\u00e8ques sans fronti\u00e8res (BSF) charity, the construction of over 100 free libraries across Haiti.  The list of family condolences shows the wide diaspora of one Guinean family: in Montreal, Atlanta, Maryland, Washington and Conakry, as well as France and Haiti, people morn this young man tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among those killed in the Haiti UN building was Mamadou Bah, son of a prominent Dinguiraye Peul family.  Educated in Lome and Paris, Bah worked in New York as well as Europe Africa and Haiti.  Eventually taking joint Franco-Guinean nationality, Bah rose to become chief spokesperson for Minustah, and spearheaded the construction, through the Biblioth\u00e8ques sans fronti\u00e8res (BSF) charity, the construction of over 100 free libraries across Haiti.  The list of family condolences shows the wide diaspora of one Guinean family: in Montreal, Atlanta, Maryland, Washington and Conakry, as well as France and Haiti, people morn this young man tonight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/01\/haiti-death-of-an-african-un-worker-ties-guinea-to-port-au-prince\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":626,"url":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/01\/nigeriens-killed-in-haiti\/","url_meta":{"origin":634,"position":0},"title":"Nigeriens killed in Haiti","date":"January 22, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"The APA reports two Nigerien Police officers and one Gendarme are presumed dead in Haiti. 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