Hurricane Matthew was the first Category 4 storm to landfall in Haiti in 52 years, creating the worst humanitarian crisis in the country since the 2010 earthquake. At least 546 people died and the lives of 2.2 million people were affected.
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Boy killed in Haiti amid protest over delay in Hurricane Aid
A teenage boy was fatally shot in Haiti on Tuesday amid protests over delays in aid distribution after a Category 4 hurricane pummeled the Caribbean country last month. It is the second such death reported in the past week.
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Post-hurricane Haiti, Unfiltered
Port-au-Prince — As I made my way through Haiti in the wake of Hurricane Matthew, which killed hundreds and devastated parts of the impoverished island, I aimed to show exactly what I saw, without any filter of distance. You can’t but feel the grief, anger and pain when you see scenes like this, when a natural catastrophe takes away from those who already have so little in this world.
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A Humanitarian Crisis in Haiti After Hurricane Matthew
Hurricane Matthew killed more than 500 people in Haiti when it struck two weeks ago, leaving more than 175,000 without homes, and more than a million more struggling to survive in what United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called “absolute devastation.”
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U.S. suspends deportations to Haiti after Hurricane Matthew
The United States is temporarily suspending deportations of Haitians after Hurricane Matthew wreaked havoc on the Caribbean island.
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Cholera outbreaks in Haiti follow devastation of Hurricane Matthew
Haiti was counting the cost of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Matthew on Saturday night, with almost 900 inhabitants killed and tens of thousands displaced in the Caribbean country.
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In Haiti, a City’s Race Into the 21st Century Is Ruined by a Hurricane
Things had been looking up in Jérémie, a coastal city marooned on the tip of Haiti’s southern peninsula. It had recently gotten its first decent road link to the rest of the country, a new highway through the rugged mountains that brought development.
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Hurricane Matthew’s devastation in Haiti forces UN to call for $120m in aid
Ban Ki-moon says ‘massive response’ is crucial to provide ‘life-saving assistance’ as local aid officials struggle to get resources to increasingly desperate areas.
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Hurricane Matthew Makes Old Problems Worse for Haitians
The first reports to arrive were of vast flooding and destruction, rivers of brown water pulsing through streets and homes shorn of tin roofs.
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A First Look as Haiti Emerges from Hurricane Matthew
As the category 4 storm barrels north across the Caribbean, photographs show the destruction in its wake.
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