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Rebuilding woes follow Haiti quake
Officials debate resettlement plans after disaster that left 1.5 million homeless.
Last Modified: 09 Feb 2010 21:44 GMT



Cash-for-work schemes in Haiti have helped to clear some of the rubble from the streets of earthquake-devastated Port-au-Prince, but rebuilding the country will be a very long-term process.

About 1.5 million people lost their homes in the earthquake and many may be resettled outside the city under a government initiative, a move that has made landowners nervous.

Al Jazeera's Jonah Hull reports from Port-au-Prince on the difficulties of rebuilding Haiti.

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