An outbreak of severe diarrhoea has killed at least 135 people in rural central Haiti and sickened hundreds more who overwhelmed a crowded hospital seeking treatment.

Senegal is one of the poorest countries in the world with its GDP only marginally higher than Haiti’s, but that has not stopped the government from going ahead with a plan to offer a new home to 163 victims of the catastrophic earthquake.

More than 70% of camps in Haiti, home to an estimated 1.3 million earthquake victims, lack proper international management nearly nine months after the disaster, leaving them at increased risk of sexual and gang violence, hunger and forced eviction, campaigners said.

From the dusty rock mounds lining the streets to a National Palace which looks like it is vomiting concrete from its core, rubble is a ubiquitous reminder of Haiti’s devastating earthquake.

The devastating earthquake that rocked Haiti in January was unleashed by a previously undetected fault line – not the well-known one initially blamed, according to an analysis of new data.

Haitian-born singer Wyclef Jean stepped down today as leader of the aid group he founded as he prepared to formally declare his candidacy for the country’s presidency.

Singer Wyclef Jean is to run for president of earthquake-ravaged Haiti.

Clutching her baby for the first time since the Haiti earthquake, Marie Miracle Seignon’s smile – and middle name – says it all.

A senior US senator sharply criticised Haiti's president, portraying him as an ineffectual leader who was hindering recovery from January's devastating earthquake.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said it has cancelled Haiti's $268m (€207m) debt and will lend the earthquake-devastated country another $60m (€46m) to help it with reconstruction plans.

Bill Clinton has criticised the slow pace of the aid effort in Haiti.

Overseas development minister Peter Power will this week get first-hand accounts of Irish efforts to rebuild earthquake-hit Haiti, the Government said today.

Police fired tear gas outside the ruins of Haiti’s national palace to control 2,000 demonstrators calling for President Rene Preval’s resignation in the largest political protest since the January 12 earthquake.

Former US president Bill Clinton will co-chair a committee overseeing at least £2.5bn (€2.8bn) in post-quake aid to Haiti.

The Government today revealed plans to pledge a total of €13m towards rebuilding Haiti after the devastating earthquake.

A Florida judge has ordered a "miracle" baby rescued from the rubble after the devastating earthquake in Haiti be reunited with her parents.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon promised Haitians that the world has not forgotten the quake-torn nation as it suffers from a shortage of shelter and growing violence in teeming camps for the homeless.

A US Baptist missionary detained on suspicion of child trafficking in Haiti said she would be ready to return again to the earthquake-ravaged country to work with children.

A Haitian judge said he would probably order the release of the last two American missionaries detained for trying to take 33 children out of the country after the devastating earthquake.

The Irish Red Cross has raised over €2m for the relief effort in Haiti.

There is not one orphan among the 33 children a US Baptist group tried to take from Haiti in a do-it-yourself post-earthquake rescue mission, it has emerged.

Wide-eyed and alert, three-month-old Haitian earthquake survivor Landina Seignon today appeared unaware of the interest her plight has attracted.

More than €800,000 has been allocated to three Irish aid agencies working in Haiti.

Eight American missionaries freed by a Haitian judge landed in Miami, Florida, today, nearly three weeks after the group was charged with kidnapping for trying to take 33 children out of the quake-stricken country.

A Haitian judge said today some of the 10 US missionaries arrested on charges of child kidnapping would be released, nearly three weeks after they were caught trying to take a group of children out of the quake-stricken country.

France is set to provide total budgetary support for Haiti.

Landina Seignon has been through more than most three-month-old infants.

Haiti's president predicts that it will take three years just to clear the rubble from the shattered capital Port-au-Prince.

Thousands of Haitians crowded into churches in the capital today for a national day of mourning a month after the magnitude-7.0 earthquake killed more than 200,000 people.

GOAL today criticised the international community for its failure to step forward and take ultimate responsibility for the rebuilding of Haiti, as inhabitants of Port-au-Prince marked the one-month anniversary of the earthquake.

A Fermoy man will be suspended in a perspex box over the town for the next three days as part of a daring fundraiser.

The Haitian judge deciding whether 10 US missionaries should face trial on charges of trying to take a busload of children out of the country says he will recommend that they are released.

Haiti issued wildly conflicting death tolls for the January 12 earthquake, adding to confusion about how many people actually died – and to suspicion that nobody really knows.

The head of Unicef warned that people may still be trying to smuggle children out of Haiti and said protecting youngsters who survived the earthquake is the top concern of the UN children’s agency.

Doctors in Haiti are treating a 28-year-old man who they believe survived 27 days buried in rubble after the earthquake on January 12.

The star-studded cover of 'Everybody Hurts' has become the fastest-selling charity single this century, the Official Charts Company said today.

The decision of the G7 countries to cancel Haiti’s huge debt burden will not, in itself, result in the stricken Caribbean nation making a satisfactory recovery from the recent earthquake, according to GOAL CEO John O'Shea.

G7 leaders are promising to write off Haiti's debt after last month's earthquake.

Ten US Baptist missionaries charged with child kidnapping returned to jail after failing to persuade a Haitian judge to free them pending the outcome of their case.

Ten American Christians have been charged with kidnapping in Haiti.

Desperate parents in a struggling village perched above Haiti’s earthquake-flattened capital said they gave their children willingly to a group of US missionaries to take them to a better life.

The aid flooding into Haiti is not reaching earthquake victims quickly enough to stem growing unrest due to transport bottlenecks, officials said today.

Simon Cowell’s Helping Haiti single will be released globally.

Anger and desperation was mounting today as unused aid stacked up inside quake-shattered Haiti.