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16 March 2012 - 6:16pmHaiti is struggling to strengthen its institutions and rebuild itself more than two years after the devastating earthquake of 2010. There has been significant progress—around 1 million people have left the camps; 5 million cubic metres of rubble have been cleared and the number of children with... -
11 January 2012 - 8:20pmTwo years ago, a powerful 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti, leaving in its wake a trail of massive destruction including more than 200,000 people dead and 2.3 million people displaced. One of the largest humanitarian responses ever mounted was launched to provide assistance to the survivors of the most... -
30 December 2011 - 2:11pm2011 has been a deeply challenging year for millions of people around the world - and stretched the capacity of humanitarian aid organisations to the limit. An earthquake and tsunami in Japan, drought and famine in the Horn of Africa, and flooding in Central America, Pakistan and Southeast Asia,... -
1 December 2011 - 6:25pmAlmost two years after the devastating earthquake of January 2010, Haiti is showing signs of progress, but hundreds of thousands of people still need help, the UN’s Humanitarian Coordinator (HC) Nigel Fisher has warned. Speaking to reporters in New York and Geneva ahead of the 2012 appeal launch for... -
18 October 2011 - 3:34pmSince April 2010, Nigel Fisher has led a massive relief operation to help millions of Haitians overcome a string of devastating disasters. On January 12, 2010, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake destroyed vast parts of the capital city of Port-au-Prince and surrounding areas – killing several hundred...
