The intentions are good -- but the implementation is terrible.

Since last week's earthquake, food aid and money have been flowing into Haiti. But lack of co-ordination between governments and aid groups means that much of the aid is getting bottle-necked at the airport. That has left thousands of sick, homeless, and terrified people without food and water, in deteriorating circumstances.

René St. Fort had planned to address the disorganization of the Haitian infrastructure in the run-up to the election that was originally planned for February. He is a Canadian-Haitian living in Port-au-Prince, and the leader of the National Reform Party of Haiti.

He's been traveling around the country since the earthquake. We reached him on the road.

On Saturday, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon confirmed the death of Hedi Annabi -- describing him as "a mild man with the heart of a lion."

Mr. Annabi, the Chief of the United Nations' Mission in Haiti died in Tuesday's earthquake, when the U.N. headquarters in Port-au-Prince collapsed. The U.N. also confirmed the death of Luiz Carlos da Costa from Brazil, who served as Annabi's deputy, and Canadian Doug Coates, an RCMP superintendent who was serving as the Acting Police Commissioner of the Haiti Mission.

The Secretary-General remembered Hedi Annabi as someone who was passionate about his role with the U.N., saying he was the "first in and last out every day for his entire career".

In October 2008, a month after Haiti was devastated by four hurricanes in a row, Carol spoke with Hedi Annabi on As It Happens. Mr. Annabi talked about the mission, and what he thought was needed to help with the difficulties facing Haiti. Here is Hedi Annabi, for the record.

In reaching and helping earthquake victims in Haiti, there is no time to spare. Precious minutes can mean the difference between lives saved and lives lost. And yet many relief organizations are feeling frustrated by perplexing delays in obtaining access to much-needed supplies and resources.

Hans Van Dillen is Médecins-sans-Frontières' head of mission for Haiti. We reached him in Port-au-Prince.

Caregivers fear that it's either her freedom or her life.

A sixteen-year-old girl in Newfoundland who swallows sharp objects is being confined in hospital. Over the past two years, she's had nine surgeries after swallowing steak knives, razorblades and other dangerous items. According to provincial law, she is old enough to be responsible for her own health care. But her mother believes that her daughter's life will be in danger if she is allowed to make her own medical decisions.

The names of the girl and her mother have not been revealed, due to a publication ban.

In December, her mother obtained a court order detaining the girl in hospital until suitable treatment can be found. Now, the Supreme Court of Newfoundland is trying to determine whether or not the young woman is competent.

We reached Bob Buckingham, the mother's lawyer, in St. John's, Newfoundland.

We reached the lawyer appointed by the court to represent the young woman's best interests, David Day, in St. John's, Newfoundland.

English soccer fans have their chants. American basketball fanatics have their thundersticks. And this June, the world will hear the distracting buzz of South Africa's beloved noisemaker, the vuvuzela.

Some have said proudly that the sound will become the unofficial soundtrack of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. In which case: yikes.

The vuvuzela is a horn about a metre long which has become the mainstay of South African soccer matches. Fans in South Africa use them to cheer on their teams, or to shame the opponents -- although you can't tell by the sound which is which. That might be why the horns come colour-coded. In matches between South Africa's two biggest teams, fans of the Kaiser Chiefs blow yellow vuvuzelas, while supporters of the Orlando Pirates blow black-and-white ones.

And how do they sound? Well, people have described them as something between an angry swarm of wasps and a elephant passing wind. But why don't you choose your own frightening analogy.

That's the sound of the vuvuzela, recorded at a match during the Confederations Cup, held last June in South Africa as a prelude to the World Cup.

It was during the run-up to this tournament when FIFA publicly mulled over the idea of banning the instrument. Unsurprisingly, South African fans put up a noisy protest against the idea. They argued that the horn brings a distinctively South African feel to the events -- and FIFA eventually backed off, with its ears ringing.

Now, the vuvuzela is under attack again -- this time from another distinctively South African mainstay:the Shembe church. It's a religious denomination that practices its blend of Old Testament Christianity and Zulu tribalism in a decidedly noisy way. Every year, followers gather for a barefoot pilgrimage that retraces the path taken by the church's founder. Over the three-day pilgrimage, they dance and sing, their spirits carried by the deep religious sound of the horn. Now, Shembe officials say they want to keep their instrument holy, and out of the hands of riotous soccer fans. they've asked their lawyer to try and ban the vuvuzela from the World Cup this June.

And our guess is win or lose, there's a good number of soccer players, sports announcers, and even some fans, are secretly cheering the church on.

To give you another taste of that distinctive sound, here's an excerpt of a report by South African reporter, Udo Carelse. It aired around the time of the Confederations Cup, for the program Supersport.

Today in Kabul, five people were killed and seventy --mostly civilians -- were injured in an attack by insurgents. But while that seems like a sadly familiar story, today's attack actually highlights fresh difficulties now faced by Afghan security forces. The Taliban has grown bolder and more brazen -- and is following a new set of tactics against a new set of targets.

Aleem Siddique is the United Nations' spokesperson in Afghanistan. We reached him in Kabul.

It has been an emotionally harrowing week for members of Montreal's Haitian community, as they wait for word of missing family members.

Last week, we spoke with Robert Ismael, a journalist with C-P-A-M, a French-language radio station that serves Montreal's Haitian diaspora. He was waiting to hear from his parents and siblings, who live in the Petionville area of Port-au-Prince.

We've reached Robert Ismael -- who simply goes by Ismael -- once again. He's in Montreal.

Last week, we also spoke with Peter Eyvidson, who helps run three orphanages in Haiti. He told us that the children from the two orphanages in Port-au-Prince had all been accounted for -- but that he had had no word on the state of the children at a third orpanage in the town of Jacmel. We're happy to report that all of the children in Jacmel are apparently fine.

Unfortunately, most of the stories of Haitians in Canada waiting to hear about family or friends in Port-au-Prince are not happy ones.

Ingrid Windsor is a poet and singer in Ottawa, and she goes by the name "Oni the Haitian Sensation". Within hours of the earthquake, she and her friends organized a fundraiser to help with the aid relief effort in Haiti. And while she continues trying to help others, she is desperately hoping to hear some news from her own family in Haiti. Her father is still missing.

We reached Oni in Ottawa earlier today.

For weeks, the pressure has been mounting on Yemen to extinguish al-Qaeda within its borders. And now, Yemen is asking the world for help.

The Yemeni government says that if it's to fight al-Qaeda and religious extremism, it needs help feeding, clothing and housing its people. Yemen's Foreign Minister, Abu Bakr al-Qirbi, is in Ottawa today, and will soon be traveling to Washington. He's hoping to clarify the situation in his country -- and to ask for development money to help his government gives the Yemeni people their basic needs.

Minister Abu Bakr al-Qirbi is in Ottawa.

Dateline: Moscow.

Back in the nineteen-fifties, researchers with the University of Pennsylvania found that one thing unfailingly reduced highway speeds: Burma-Shave billboards.

For you youngsters whose first razor had four blades and that thing they call an "indicator strip", I'll explain: Burma-Shave was a brand of brushless shaving cream. Starting in the late 'Twenties, the company started putting up a series of roadside billboards that, read in sequence, formed gently humourous poems. Things like "The wolf / Is shaved / So neat and trim / Red Riding Hood / Is chasing him / Burma-Shave". Or "Train approaching / Whistle squealing / Stop / Avoid that run-down feeling / Burma-Shave".

Well, Burma-Shave's long-gone in 2010. Droll rhymes don't do it for us any more. We've moved on to higher-tech roadside advertising. And when it comes to slowing down traffic, some work better than others. For example: last Thursday in Moscow, traffic on the Garden Ring Road was bumper-to-bumper in front of a video billboard. And if a child had asked his mother what was being advertised on the billboard, his mother would have cautiously begun: "Well, Dmitri...when a man and a woman love each other very much..."

Yep: someone hacked into the advertising screen's computer system, and showed a clip of a couple engaged in...adult situations.

According to The Moscow Times newspaper, the clip created havoc on the Garden Ring Road for about twenty minutes before it was shut down. A spokesperson for the advertising firm that owns the billboard says the hackers were either hooligans, or working for a rival firm.

There is a third possibility. And that is that the billboard's owners are deliberately taking a page out of the book of Burma-Shave. To put it in rhyming terms: "If you want / To up the ante / Show a couple / In flagrante." OWEB>