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Port-au-Prince shortly after the earthquake. Reconstruction efforts have been slow (Photo: Colin Crowley)

Haiti reconstruction at a 'standstill', EU ambassador says

by Andrew Willis, Brussels,

A year after a devastating earthquake ripped through the Caribbean state of Haiti, international reconstruction efforts have ground to a halt, plunged into confusion by the country's ongoing political deadlock, the EU's top official on the ground has said.

"A lot of donors have encountered the same problem, we have a standstill of the reconstruction project because everybody is very reluctant to get teams into the country," Lut Fabert-Goosens, EU ambassador to Haiti, told EUobserver in...

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Port-au-Prince shortly after the earthquake. Reconstruction efforts have been slow (Photo: Colin Crowley)

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