Agony has not abaded for Haitian

Almost nine months later a devastating earthquake, an approximated 1.3 million Haitians are calm being in temporary protections while the country struggles on Reconstruction Period and rsebuilding a government, the United Nations told Thursday in an updated report.

The 1.3 million people displaced by the magnitude-7 quake Jan 12 today alive in 1,300 settlement sites.

 

“The post in the packs remains complex, given a shifting population and fluctuating use of camps,” the report said. It said most of the 600,000 residents who left the capital Port-au-Prince after the quake have returned.

 

The quake killed more 200,000 people and destroyed or battered more 230,000 buildings and houses. The external community in March pledged over $11 billion for the long-term retrieval and reconstruction of Haiti.

 

The UN stabilization mission in Haiti, with more than 10,000 military and police personnel, has been engaged in assisting the government in the massive humanitarian and reconstruction tasks.

 

The report said the most challenging task for Port-au-Prince, in addition to reconstruction, is to organize presidential and legislative elections later this year.

 

It called for a credible and legitimate poll “in order to bring in a president and government with a clear and uncontested mandate to lead the reconstruction process.”

 

It said Haiti has successfully avoided a second-wave disaster of epidemics and social unrest. But it warned that the country is facing a fragile political, social and economic situation with the hundreds of thousands of quake victims still living in camps in the coming year.