Sunday, January 17, 2010

Disaster In Haiti -- News Updates January 17, 2010

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Desperation In Haiti Amid Chaos And Pleas For More Aid -- Yahoo News/AFP

PORT-AU-PRINCE (AFP) – Relief workers in Haiti struggled for the fifth day Sunday to assist desperate earthquake survivors amid anger over the chaotic aid effort, as two former US presidents admitted the country's recovery will be long.

Aid continued to trickle in but failed to reach many of those most in need after Tuesday's 7.0-magnitude earthquake brought death and misery on an unprecedented scale to the impoverished and dysfunctional Caribbean nation.

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More News On The Disaster In Haiti

Haiti Earthquake (Full Coverage) -- Yahoo News
Full Coverage from CBS News -- CBS News
Haiti Earthquake (Full Coverage) -- BBC
Haiti earthquake: News updates -- CNN
Haiti earthquake updates -- The Telegraph
Live: Haiti earthquake - latest updates -- Times Online
Haiti Updates -- The Guardian

Graphic: Aid to Haiti in limbo -- National Post

Extent of Haiti destruction clear -- BBC
Officials Strain to Distribute Aid to Haiti as Violence Rises -- New York Times
Aid Pours Into Haiti Airport as Relief Workers Struggle to Distribute It -- L.A. Times

Frictions Between Nations Rise Over Struggle of Getting Aid to Haiti -- Washington Post
Haitians Flee Ruined Capital for Shelter in Countryside -- Wall Street Journal
Lack of Medical Facilities Poses Dilemma -- Wall Street Journal
Looting Flares Where Authority Breaks Down -- New York Times
Tens of thousands neglected at quake epicentre -- ABC News (Australia)
Haiti earthquake: Hillary Clinton visits devastated capital -- Times Online
Who's running Haiti? No one, say the people -- Reuters
Helping Haiti: The U.S. Navy Is Ready, But Aid Is Not -- Yahoo News/Time
At Haiti roadblock, a lesson in power dynamics -- L.A. Times
Haiti earthquake: worst disaster ever, says UN -- The Telegraph

Haiti Earthquake: How You Can Help -- FOX News
AT&T enables $10 text message donations to Haiti -- Business Week
Haiti Quake: How You Can Help -- CBS News
How You Can Help the Earthquake Victims -- ABC News

Good Haitian Tweet aggregators are here, here, and here. (Hat Tip: Foreign Policy)
Haiti Twitter Coverage -- Twitter

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