Topic: Disaster Relief
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations on Wednesday assigned former U.S. President Bill Clinton, now U.N. special envoy to Haiti, to coordinate international relief efforts in the earthquake-devastated country. Clinton will seek to organize a mass of aid initiatives and offers that have poured in since the magnitude 7.0 earthquake killed up to 200,000 Haitians and ...
American and Delta airlines say they have not set a date for resuming regular service to Haiti, and they continue to cancel flights for the next several days. Both carriers have operated relief missions approved by U.S. government officials, and they have carried people out ...
GENEVA (Reuters) - The aid operation in Haiti has been complicated and frustratingly slow, but is making significant progress, particularly in getting food to quake survivors, the top U.N. relief official said on Tuesday. Providing shelter to an estimated 1 million homeless is first priority now that search and rescue efforts have ended and most life-threatening injuries have been treated ...
