The main port is unable to offload supplies from ships, and the key road to neighbouring Dominican Republic is clogged, as hundreds of lorries try to get in and out of Haiti.

海地的主要港口无法从船上卸载物资，数百辆卡车试图进出海地，但通往邻近的多米尼加共和国的道路也被封堵。

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The quake was also felt in Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti.

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The quake was also felt in Dominican Republic which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti.

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This was the beginning of the process that led to the creation of the Republic of Haiti, the first independent black republic of the world.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

Pamela A. White, of Maine, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Career Minister, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Haiti.

WHITEHOUSE: The White House

This is a significant date as it recalls an uprising of enslaved Africans on the island of Saint Domingue in 1791, resulting in the establishment of the Republic of Haiti, the first black independent state in the Western World.

UNESCO: UK National Commission for UNESCO :: 2010 International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition