Friday, January 22, 2010

Disaster In Haiti -- News Updates January 22, 2010



Haiti Rescuers Switch Focus To Relief For Survivors -- Yahoo News AFP

PORT-AU-PRINCE (AFP) – More aftershocks rocked the Haitian capital Friday, as UN teams switched focus from search and rescue to relief efforts 10 days after a catastrophic earthquake demolished much of the city.

Some Port Au Prince residents ran in panic from concrete buildings, fearing a repeat of the collapses that last week killed at least 75,000 people and left more than a million homeless living in streets, parks and makeshift tented encampments.

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More News On The Disaster in Haiti

Haiti Earthquake (Full Coverage) -- Yahoo News
Latest Updates on the Crisis in Haiti -- The Lede/New York Times
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

U.S. Forces in Haiti to Grow to 20,000 -- US Department of Defense

Haiti: life on the street facing hunger, despair -- Yahoo News/AP
'The state is completely destroyed' -- Sydney Morning Herald
Haiti to End Search for Quake Survivors -- Wall Street Journal

New camps planned for 400,000 homeless Haitians -- BBC
400,000 Haitians bound for temporary camps: officials -- CTV
Haiti Plans Massive Relocation Of Quake Survivors -- NPR
Aid Groups Focus on Haiti’s Homeless -- New York Times

Haiti effort to get a boost from added airfields, seaport reopening -- L.A. Times
Seaport and More Airports Open for Aid to Haiti -- Voice of America
Haiti pier opens, road laid into Port-au-Prince -- CNN
U.S. opens Haiti port as officials seek housing for survivors -- McClatchy News
Aid makes it to Haiti, but not onto streets -- CNN

As Search for Survivors Slows in Haiti, Humanitarian Efforts Intensify -- Washington Post
Economy in Shock Struggles to Restart -- New York Times
Seaport, banks reopening in quake-hit Haiti -- Reuters

Haiti’s Many Troubles Keep Bodies Uncounted -- New York Times
Haiti earthquake: Port-au-Prince in shambles, but much of the country spared -- Christian Science Monitor
White House Eager to Project Image of Competence in Relief Efforts -- New York Times
Trafficking fears as Haiti children go missing -- ABC News (Australia)
Haiti Aftershocks Will Continue for Months, Maybe Years -- Wired Science

On TV, online and on the radio tonight: 'Hope For Haiti Now' -- USA Today
'Hope For Haiti Now' Telethon Airs Tonight At 8 P.M. -- MTV
'Hope for Haiti' to dominate the airwaves -- CNN
Haiti benefit to be streamed live on YouTube, other sites -- AFP
UK joins Haiti telethon, Rihanna, Jay-Z, Bono and Coldplay to perform -- Times Online

Twitter grows up in aftermath of Haiti earthquake -- CNET
Haiti Twitter Coverage -- Twitter

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