Quake-hit Haitians start new life in Senegal

Senegal is one of the poorest countries in the world with its GDP only marginally higher than Haiti’s, but that has not stopped the government from going ahead with a plan to offer a new home to 163 victims of the catastrophic earthquake.

The young men and women stepped off a plane to a raucous welcome yesterday, including dancers who pounded the pavement in costumes made of cowrie shells and traditional praise singers who shouted accolades into megaphones.