Morning Briefing

After announcing a revised appeal of $1.4 billion in February to finance emergency relief as well as recovery and reconstruction, the U.N. "is struggling to provide support for equake-ravaged Haiti," according to humanitarian chief John Holmes, Reuters reports. "We did extremely well on raising funds for the initial flash appeal, but we are struggling, I'm afraid, to raise resources for the revised appeal. ... We have got 49 percent of what we need for the whole year and we are appealing to donors to come forward with more resources for that relief operation," Holmes said.