Top Humanitarian Relief Coordinator for UN Criticizes Relief Effort

February 17, 2010

Colum Lynch, longtime Washington Post United Nations reporter, reports for the Turtle Bay blog at Foreign Policy:

The U.N.’s top humanitarian relief coordinator John Holmes scolded his top aid lieutenants for failing to adequately manage the relief effort in Haiti, saying that an uneven response in the month following the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake was undercutting confidence in the U.N.’s ability to deliver vital assistance, according to a confidential email obtained by Turtle Bay.

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