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Another school falls down in Haiti. Days after a school collapsed in the nation, killing more than 90 people, another school, this time in Haiti’s capital, collapsed Wednesday, reports CNN. The minor collapse affected only a portion of the building and injured nine children. The students are from the Grace Divine and Secondary School in Port-au-Prince, and lives were lost in the collapse, according to Haiti’s head of operations for the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent. Children who were jumping and dancing during a musical caused the collapse, she said. But this building, like the school building that collapsed last week, suffered from faulty construction, says a local journalist. “This is the same kind of problem of construction as in the school last week. It’s weak construction. It’s not solid,” said Clarens Renois. The scale of damage in this latest collapse doesn’t come close to Friday’s tragedy. Haitian President Rene Preval has called for an investigation into last week’s collapse that killed 93 people and injured 150.

Sudan’s government announces ceasefire in Darfur. Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, has announced a ceasefire in the Darfur region, the BBC reports. “I hereby announce our immediate unconditional ceasefire between the armed forces and the warring factions, provided that an effective monitoring mechanism is put into action and observed by all involved parties,” he said. He made the announcement after he got the final recommendations of the Sudan People’s Initiative (SPI). But members of a prominent rebel group, the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), said they wouldn’t agree to the ceasefire, Reuters reported. A Sudanese official, Jalal al-Dugair, said the government will create contracts with the rebel groups to encourage them to abide by the ceasefire agreement. Bashir has been criticized worldwide for not doing enough to stop violence against Black Africans in the region, and he’s even wanted by an international court for allegedly facilitating war crimes in the nation. The government hopes that the call for ceasefire will take some of the pressure off of him and show the court, as well as the world, that he is doing something to stop war crimes, reports the news service.  However, declared ceasefires, in the past, have not gone according to plan. Although, this agreement, according to a government official, addresses all rebel concerns and will be aided by the United Nations. About 300,000 people have died since the violence, between ethnic rebels and militias suspected to be linked to the government, started in 2003. Another 2.5 million people have been made homeless.

Rescuers in Haiti are no longer finding signs of life. A few days after a school building collapsed in Haiti, rescue workers are saying that they have not found any signs of life in the rubble, reports Agence France Presse. They would like to see the operation turn from search and rescue to body recovery. “We have inspected the rubble with cameras and dogs. We have unfortunately found no sign of life,” said a French medic. Rescue teams from the Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders and the United Nations, and teams from France, the United States and Canada, along with local police, have been working together to find survivors in the Peitionville school. They will continue to “take every precaution possible” to make sure any possible survivors are protected, he said, but finding life is “very slim” at this time. Since the three-story building collapsed on Friday, only four children have been found alive; at least 93 people were killed. About 250 to 300 people where inside the La Promesse school when it collapsed. Even though 700 students attended the school, only about half would be there at a given time since it operates in two sessions, according to the country’s Youth and Sports Minister Evans Lescouflair. Officials are investigating the cause of the tragedy and already have questioned the building’s owner, Pastor Augustin Fortain, but have not decided to charge him with anything yet. Witnesses say that he built the school without using engineers. Officials will also launch an investigation into the school’s construction. “This construction did not meet normal standards. We are going to ask the minister of education to make an inspection of all the schools built in the same way,” a Haitian senator said. “It’s a real calamity. This building was not suitable for a school,” said Justice Minister Jean-Joseph Exume.