HAITIAN President Rene Preval will stay in office for three more months as his country chooses a successor in a delayed election, his chief of staff said.

Haitian President Rene Preval will stay in office for three more months as his country chooses a successor in a delayed election, his chief of staff said.

Haitians fled their quake-wrecked capital in the hundreds of thousands today amid government promises of refuge in safe, clean tent cities.

Haiti's government said today it would move 400,000 people made homeless by the devastating earthquake from the shattered capital to new resettlement areas on the outskirts.

The largest earthquake ever recorded in the area has rocked Haiti, collapsing a hospital and damaging other buildings.