US to resume airlifts of Haiti quake victims
PORT-AU-PRINCE: The United States said on Sunday it will resume airlifting critically injured earthquake victims from Haiti after a row over who would pay for their care halted flights. The news emerg…
Haitian child quake victims flown to US for care
Doctors skirted a bureaucratic logjam to save the life of three critically ill child victims of Haiti's earthquake on Sunday, flying them to U.S. hospitals on a private jet to avoid a military suspens…
UN food agency raises aid for quake-hit Haiti
The UN World Food Programme has begun ramping up its operations in Haiti by opening 16 fixed food distribution sites offering supplies to some 2 million people affected by the massive earthquake in the capital, Port-au-Prince. Up until now the natu…
Doctor: Haitians will die without U.S. airlifts
An apparent cost dispute has halted flights of Haitian quake victims to the U.S., and a doctor warns that some patients face imminent death.
A glance at Haiti developments 18 days after quake
Tue., Jan 12: 4:53 p.m.: A killer quake of magnitude 7.0 strikes 10 miles west of Port-au-Prince, causing untold deaths, collapsing thousands of buildings, severing roads, putting the city's main seap…
Rubble from Haiti quake could fill 5 Superdomes
I congratulate Fred Grimm for his passionate writing and insightful interpretation of what it means to worship God amid the current ruinous state of Haiti ( A celebration of faith, even among church r…
Doctor: Quake victims dying without US airlifts
U.S. Navy and Air Force personnel get ready to airlift a girl with head injuries to an offshore medical facility in Port-au-Prince, in this Jan.
UN receives up to $2 bn for Haiti quake
United Nations agencies involved in assisting Haiti have received donations and pledges worth up to $2 billion, the top UN humanitarian emergency coordinator said.
Mobs disrupt some Haiti quake food handouts
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Angry crowds mobbed three food distribution sites in Haiti’s capital on Thursday, the latest handouts to turn chaotic as aid groups struggle to help the throngs left desperate and hungry by the catastrophic earthquake.
Criminals looting and raping quake survivors, says Haiti police chief
Bandits are reportedly preying on vulnerable earthquake survivors, even raping women, in makeshift camps set up in the capital after the disaster, Haitis police chief has revealed.