Tragedy has a way of visiting those who can bear it least. Haiti is the poorest nation in the western hemisphere, a place where malnutrition is widespread and less than half the population has access to clean drinking water. At 4:53:09 p.m. on Jan.
A powerful new earthquake struck Haiti on Wednesday, shaking rubble from damaged buildings and sending screaming people running into the streets only eight days after the country's capital was devastated by an apocalyptic quake. The magnitude-6.1 tremor was the largest aftershock yet to the January 12 quake.
ANDREW CAWTHORNE and CATHERINE BREMER
PORT-AU-PRINCE
The pace of food and medical aid deliveries picked up in earthquake shattered Haiti, providing some hope to desperate survivors, but doctors worried disease would be the next big challenge for the tens of thousands left injured and homeless a week ago.
The disaster in Haiti shows once again something that we, as human beings, have always known: that even amid the worst devastation, there is always hope.
MICHELLE FAUL and ALFRED DE MONTESQUIOU
PORT-AU-PRINCE
Troops, doctors and aid workers flowed into Haiti on Monday even while hundreds of thousands of quake victims struggled to find a cup or water or a handful of food.
ANDREW CAWTHORNE and CATHERINE BREMER
PORT-AU-PRINCE
World leaders pledged aid to rebuild a devastated Haiti, but on the streets of its wrecked capital earthquake survivors were still waiting on Sunday for the basics: food, water and medicine.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced a $5 million assistance to quake-ravaged Haiti towards relief measures. "India stands by the government and people of Haiti in their hour of need.
We would like to make an immediate cash donation of $5 million as a token of our solidarity with the people of Haiti," Dr Singh said.
