[Al Arabiya Latest] The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) urged Islamic countries to extend aid to earthquake-devastated Haiti, which was struck again by a 6.1-magnitude on Wednesday as rescuers pulled more than 100 survivors from the rubble.
OIC Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu expressed "shock and sadness" over the January 12 quake which killed at least 75,000 people, injured another 250,000 and left more than a million homeless, according to a Haitian government toll.
Ihsanolglu "urged all OIC member states and civil society organizations to extend a helping hand to the Haitian population in this testing time of extreme hardship and sorrow," according to an OIC statement. |