Haiti : Foreign Aid Begins To Trickle In

International aid has started getting into Haiti nearly a week since the devastating 7.2-magnitude earthquake, despite bridge and road failures that hampered efforts to reach some of the hardest-hit and remote towns. Early Friday, there was no road access to the southwestern city of Jeremie, as images circulated showing damage to the Dumarsais Estime Bridge, one of the main access routes into the city. The local public works department was working early afternoon to secure an alternate route into Jeremie.
Hundreds of people lined up to receive provisions from the U.N. World Food Programme at a camp in the rural town of Camp-Perrin for people displaced by Saturday’s 7.2 magnitude quake. 
Reuters reports that, the official death toll stood at 2,189 but was expected to rise. A mudslide caused by two nights of heavy rain earlier this week had partly blocked the main road leading to the area. Any more rain could make it impassable, locals said. People were sleeping out in a field under trees.
The airport in Les Cayes, near the earthquake’s epicenter, had become the busy landing ground for relief arriving into Haiti as injured people were simultaneously airlifted to hospitals in the capital of Port-au-Prince. Two U.S. military aircrafts and several U.S. Coast Guard helicopters hovered over Les Cayes with provisions. France also sent a ship w...