Aid struggles to reach Haitians

Published on 15 January 2010

Aid agencies are struggling to reach the up to three million of people affected by an earthquake that has devastated Haiti (..). Alejandro Lopez-Chicheri, senior spokesman for the World Food Programme for Latin America, Central America and the Caribbean, said that Haiti was "completely on the ground". "The roads, many of them are still to be opened, and on the ones that are open there are still people concentrated on the sides of the roads," he told Al Jazeera from Port-au-Prince.

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