Reprinted from Caribbean Net News
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Haiti and donors make efficiency pledge
12-01-2006

MADRID, Spain (UPI): Haiti and 30 nations Thursday promised greater efficiency in the handling of money pledged for rebuilding the Western Hemisphere's poorest nation.

During a donors' conference in the Spanish capital, Haitian Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis said 99 percent of the $750 million promised since July has failed to reach those groups to which it was pledged, the BBC reported.

Haiti elected a new president and other lawmakers earlier this year, following more than two years of interim rule by leaders who were installed after former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide left the country in February 2004.

Aristide left Haiti amid an armed uprising by former soldiers who pledged to overthrow the president.