Haiti government pledges to resettle 400,000 people

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.

Authorities were worried about sanitation and disease outbreaks in makeshift settlements like the one on Port-au-Prince's central Champs de Mars plaza, said Fritz Longchamp, chief of staff to President Rene Preval.