Haiti PM to donors: please honor aid pledges

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Port-au-Prince (AFP) - Only half of the nine billion dollars in international aid promised to Haiti after a devastating earthquake in 2010 has been delivered, the prime minister told AFP. So far, 48 percent of that amount has been handed over, mainly in emergency and humanitarian aid, while the country faces colossal rebuilding needs after the 7.0-magnitude quake, Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe, in power since 2012, said Thursday in an exclusive interview. He called on the members of the international community to "continue to honor their commitments." By 2015, Haiti will build 10,000 subsidized housing units with the help of international donors.

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