With air traffic to the capital cut off, some rescue organizations flew to Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic, to try to reach Port-au-Prince by bus or truck.
The figures show an unprecedented number of families who cannot afford to find homes in their local area being uprooted from their neighbourhoods and dumped further and further away from the capital, cut off from their relatives and support networks.
Most of its funds are blocked in the central bank of the eight Central African Franc countries in Dakar, the Senegalese capital, which has cut off all relations with the Côte d'Ivoire.
This capital city remained cut off from the rest of the country for a third consecutive day on Friday because of a blockade ordered by Maoist insurgents on the two main highways in the Katmandu Valley.
About $40 billion of such loans fall due over the next year, most of them to the beleaguered private sector, and this will create a huge demand for dollars.A final worry stems from the introduction last May of capital controls to cut off foreign access to the baht for speculation.
"When I became a mayor five years ago, it was a nightmare," Bora begins - I thought he was going to talk about the difficulties of leading a capital that is cut off from the rest of the continent, of heading a city caught in an interminable conflict, but no - "I saw newspapers lying all over the streets.
Rebel advances on the capital Tripoli have cut off the road to neighbouring Tunisia, which is the route teams from Libya have taken since February to fulfil commitments following the NATO air blockade.
By August 1999, the number of newly displaced people was estimated at 1.6 million, most of whom are in provincial capitals and towns cut off from the rest of the country by road closures due to insecurity and land mines.
Much of the capital, Dhaka, has been cut off from the rest of the country in recent weeks as the main opposition presses its demands through general strikes and transport blockades.
Ground supply routes linking those provinces to Damascus, the capital, have slowly been cut off throughout the spring and summer, as rebels have mastered the use of roadside bombs and gradually overrun government bases and checkpoints along the way.
And in June, Mrs Gaymard's own company pulled off a deal to buy parts of a French power and transport group, Alstom, for €12.4 billion.So the AmCham survey may indicate irritation rather than firm intention to cut off capital to France.
