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The Haitian government estimates that up to 200,000 people may have been killed (Photo: redcross.org)

Haiti offered millions in EU emergency assistance

by Leigh Phillips, Brussels,

Haiti, the poorest nation in the western hemisphere is to receive some €115 million in fresh European Union cash for humanitarian aid, it was announced on Monday (18 January).

Europe will also be sending a contingent of European gendarmes to support the re-imposition of civil order.

EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton and Spanish foreign minister Miguel Angel Moratinos, whose country currently chairs the EU's six-month rotating presidency, announced the funds following an e...

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The Haitian government estimates that up to 200,000 people may have been killed (Photo: redcross.org)

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