Ban Ki Moon visited Haiti for five and a half hours on Sunday. As Huffington Post reports:
The U.N. World Food Program plans to start feeding 1 million people in two weeks and 2 million people in one month, the secretary-general said. WFP spokesman David Orr said the agency hoped to reach more than 60,000 Sunday.
With an estimated 3 million to 3.5 million people in need of aid, Ban was asked whether it would be enough to avoid riots.
“I sincerely hope and appeal to Haitian people to be more patient,” he said. “We do not want to even imagine that kind of situation.”
…U.N. peacekeeping chief Alain Le Roy plans to ask the Security Council on Monday to send 850 additional peacekeepers and international police to Haiti temporarily, officials traveling with Ban said. About 9,000 peacekeepers and international police were in Haiti at the time of the quake, but those forces sustained heavy losses in the disaster.
RTWT here.
