By MICHELLE FAUL, Associated Press Writer
TITANYEN, Haiti – Haiti issued wildly conflicting death tolls for the Jan. 12 earthquake on Wednesday, adding to confusion about how many people actually died — and to suspicion that nobody really knows.
A day after Communications Minister Marie-Laurence Jocelyn Lassegue raised the official death toll to 230,000, her office put [...]

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Ruto denies part in Kenya maize scam
BY MICHAEL KARANJA
Agriculture Minister William Ruto said on Wednesday that he was ready to take blame if found culpable in a multi billion shillings maize scandal.
Fielding questions form journalists, Mr Ruto said he was yet to see an audit report that implicates his ministry to the scandal where over [...]

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