U.S. aid chief seeks more effective help for Haiti amid 'chaos'


FILE PHOTO: Samantha Power, administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, delivers a speech during a visit to El Salvador at the Central American University in San Salvador, El Salvador June 14, 2021. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the U.S. Agency for International Development said on Wednesday she was looking at aid to Haiti in the hope of better results than billions of dollars in previous assistance that did little to ease the country's deep problems.

"We see the chaos, we see what isn't working," USAID Administrator Samantha Power told a congressional hearing on the agency's budget request, a week after Haitian President Jovenel Moise was gunned down in his home, worsening insecurity in the country.

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