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Haiti - Of 390,500 buildings surveyed after the quake, less than 1,000 have been repaired by the Haitian authorities -
Port-au-Prince - A woman walks past the Terrain Acra camp where 26,000 people live -
Haiti - A boy awaits the arrival of a prosthetic limb one year after he lost his leg in the quake -
Port-au-Prince - A woman walks past a newly built wall
On 12 January 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck the impoverished Caribbean state of Haiti.
It killed more than 220,000 and left about 20% of the population, some 2m people, homeless.
One year on, a Haitian minister has said it is not clear when Haiti will be fully rebuilt.
The Minister for Public Works, Transport and Communication Jacques Gabriel made the grim assessment.
'The task will be very heavy, not just in the city, but in the provinces that were concerned and perhaps nationally,' the minister said in an AFP interview at his temporary office in the once picturesque, now squalid and half-ruined capital Port-au-Prince.
'It's hard to give a time-frame, to say two, three, five years,' he said.
Even rehousing the government of the stricken nation, where the presidential palace lies in ruins, is not imminent.
'The state should be able to finance the construction of the administrative complex in the next five years,' he said this week.
Haitians living in fetid tent camps are furious that they are still no closer to moving back into real houses.
About 1.3 million people had to take shelter in camps, with another 600,000 cramming in with relatives and other hosts.
Aid groups estimate that only 5% of the rubble has been cleared, impeding attempts to rebuild. Officials say that only 40% of the rubble will have gone by August, 18 months after the tragedy.
Former US president Bill Clinton, who is helping to coordinate relief efforts, called that performance 'totally unacceptable,' while Oxfam says 'indecision' is to blame for the lack of progress.
Minister Gabriel admitted that of 390,500 buildings surveyed, less than 1,000 have been repaired by the Haitian authorities.
But he said that rebuilding on such a large scale simply cannot be done quickly.
'We have made an evaluation of the damage caused by the quake and we are working on a reconstruction plan for the city centre in Port-au-Prince,' he said.
'Before rebuilding, you need studies, a global approach, a vision of how to rebuild, what to rebuild, in what conditions and in what ways, taking into account the seismic hazard.'
Defending himself against widespread accusations of going too slow, he said, 'you also need to educate people, train technicians and build in a new way to avoid new catastrophes.'
A first big rehousing project is due to be launched on Wednesday, the anniversary, with a planned construction of 3,000 apartments in a neighbourhood near the flattened presidential palace.
'It is a project for public housing with high-rises, but respecting the seismic norms, and housing hundreds of families,' he said.
