Earthquake aid flowing after Haiti gang truce opens up highway

For the first time in months, traffic is moving on a key road through a gang-ravaged neighbourhood near Port-au-Prince.

Aid trucks movements are safer this week from the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince to areas destroyed by last week’s earthquake thanks to a gang leader calling a truce to help relief efforts. The death toll from the August 14, 7.2-magnitude quake surpassed 2,200, with more than 340 still missing. Aid to the earthquake-battered communities in the island’s Southwest has mostly been transported by air due to security concerns as gang violence has flared in the outskirts of Haiti’s capital and prevented national and international efforts to transport essential supplies.