Spokesman: Saudi government donating US$50 million to Haiti
Monday, January 25, 2010 According to a Saudi Arabian foreign ministry spokesman, his country’s government is donating US$50 million worth of aid to Haiti to help the victims of the January 12 earthquake there, which killed at least 150,000 people and left hundreds of thousands without homes. The donation, which is said by Agence France-Presse (AFP) to be the largest made by any Middle Eastern nation, will go through the