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Across the city, walls have been scrawled with messages. “We need help. Food, water, medicine,” said one in Spanish and English.
“I’m not going to Croix des Bouquets or anywhere for that matter,ugg,” said Martine Desir, 24, referring to one new community being set up some 15km outside the capital.
Canada said its troops had cleared Haiti’s Jacmel airfield of debris in a bid to ease the aid logjam. The main Port-au-Prince airport is under US military control, but aid is still said to be backed up there.
Some 20,000 US troops have been sent in to help distribute food and water, with the US saying it had begun to hand out 14 million meals and was aiming to supply half a million people with fresh water within a few days.
“She was in a pocket surrounded by concrete,” he added.
Pillagers armed with small handcarts again swarmed across the rubble on Wednesday removing anything salvageable, especially wood and metal to help throw up temporary shacks.
Ronald Waldman, coordinator of US health efforts in Haiti, said US medics had carried out “thousands” of amputations and that the figure could reach tens of thousands by the end of the relief effort.
An AFP reporter in Croix des Bouquets on Wednesday said the area was a vast, gravel wasteland with just a few people hanging about hoping for work.
He was not buried by the January 12 quake but two days later, according to the US military who rescued him, probably by an aftershock. His ordeal was the longest of any Haiti quake survivor so far.
Meanwhile, a French rescue team has pulled a 16-year-old Haitian girl alive from under the rubble in Port-au-Prince, 15 days after the January 12 earthquake, they said.
Just four blocks from the destroyed presidential palace as crowds queued under a blazing sun, Immacula Cadet said she was hungry, but was afraid of being hurt in the long lines if fighting erupts over the handouts.
“I don’t want to battle in the road to have a little bread,” she told AFP. “We really have problems. We need all that (aid). We need food, we have no water.”
The UN warned meanwhile that child traffickers and gangsters could try to exploit the chaos triggered by the quake to step up their criminal activities.
In the Cite Soleil slum on Tuesday, several thousand desperate people converged on a walled police compound for sacks of relief supplies, surging against the steel gates.
'Nearly 170,000' bodies counted in Haiti
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Although the global focus is now on helping the hungry, stunned rescuers on Tuesday wrenched a survivor from the rubble after 12 days entombed in the ruins.
Dehydrated, covered in dust and with a broken leg, the 31-year-old emerged alive from the ruins of a road called the Rue de Miracles after surviving on small amounts of water.
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Dermot Carty, deputy director of the UN children’s fund UNICEF, said the chaotic situation in Haiti offered a “conducive environment” for traffickers and smugglers to abduct Haitian children. Oxfam has launched a “cash-for-work” scheme to employ people to clean up makeshift camps and improve their living conditions, which will be expanded to nine other sites housing some 80,000 people. “She just said ‘thank you,’ she’s very weak, which suggests that she’s been there for 15 days,” Commander Samuel Bernes of the rescue team told AFP on Wednesday. Desperate Haitians still face a battle for survival more than two weeks after a deadly quake, as aid trickles in and fears grow that child traffickers could exploit the tragedy. “We need jobs, but we are angry. The radio told us (the government) is setting up a camp, but there is nothing here,” said Saint Louis Clevens, 32, as he waited in vain outside the site. Haitians are “desperately in need of meals ready to eat” and tents ahead of the rainy season, senior UN humanitarian official Catherine Bragg said at the World Economic Forum at the Swiss mountain resort of Davos. The US State Department separately urged prospective parents to be patient when adopting Haitian children after the country put the brakes on airlifts to prevent mistakes and trafficking. “She was treated on the spot, she wasn’t able to get out alone,” said Bernes, explaining that neighbours had been searching in the rubble of their home in the central Carrefour-Feuilles district when they heard a voice. Haiti President Rene Preval says “nearly 170,000″ bodies have already been counted since the January 12 earthquake, substantially higher than previous toll estimates of 150,000. |
Up to a million people were left homeless and destitute by the 7.0-magnitude January 12 quake, which destroyed much of the capital city of the impoverished Caribbean nation and left 150,000 dead.
A massive aid effort has swung into place, but many Haitians, left living in makeshift camps dotted around Port-au-Prince, say they have yet to receive vital supplies of food or water.
The Haitian government has embarked on program to relocate 500,mbt sport shoes sale,000 people in villages outside the capital, but the scheme has been greeted with some suspicion by a people scarred by decades of political upheaval.
US troops on Wednesday pulled a 31-year-old man from the rubble, although he may have been buried by a building that collapsed after the earthquake.
“In 15 days many efforts have been made. The National Equipment Company (NEC) has made great efforts in removing nearly 170,000 dead from the streets and clearing the roadways to facilitate traffic,” Preval told a press conference on Wednesday.
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News Corp.’s (NWS) social networking site MySpace is close to clinching an agreement to purchase Imeem, an online music business started in 2003, a person familiar with the matter says. MySpace would pay about $1 million in cash and as much as $9 million to employees, the person says. That would amount to an abysmal return on a company that raised $24.8 million in funding, and it bodes ill for other ad-supported online music services once considered a ray of hope for the hobbled music industry.
Is MySpace Buying Imeem?
Imeem’s expected fire sale to MySpace shows that the plight of ad-supported streaming music services is worsening.
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