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: Haiti tragedy repeats itself
Aid now a priority in Caribbean nation but everyone here wants to be sure not to repeat mistakes of the past.
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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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