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A gang-fueled crisis has devastated Haiti, and the U.N. estimates 360,000 people in the Caribbean nation are displaced. ... U.N. agency appeals for aid to help Haiti weather hurricane season. June ...
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From late May to early June 2023, periods of heavy rain impacted Haiti, leaving soils saturated and unable to absorb much additional rain. On 2–3 June, a stationary area of low pressure produced heavy rain and thunderstorms across the country. [1] [2] Rains subsided the following day as the storm system waned. With the aforementioned soils ...
(Reuters) -Colombian President Gustavo Petro arrived in Haiti's southeastern city of Jacmel on Wednesday afternoon in a rare visit by a foreign head of state to the Caribbean nation, as Haiti ...
3–4 October: Hurricane Matthew hits Haiti with catastrophic flooding of up to 40 inches and storm surge of up to 10 feet. [18] At least 580 people were killed and more than 35,000 left homeless by the storm. 2018. 6 October: A 5.9 magnitude earthquake with a depth of 11.7km [19] occurred at 20:11 local time killing 12 people and injuring 188.
The socioeconomic and political crisis in Haiti has been marked by rising energy prices due to the 2022 global energy crisis, as well as protests, and civil unrest against the government of Haiti, armed gang violence, an outbreak of cholera, shortages of fuel and clean drinking water, as well as widespread acute hunger.
Some of the flights, coordinated by the U.S. Southern Command in Doral, have delivered humanitarian aid and equipment for the Haiti National Police, which were purchased by the government of Haiti.
Hurricane Matthew struck southwestern Haiti near Les Anglais on October 4, 2016, leaving widespread damage in the impoverished nation. Matthew was a late-season Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson scale, having formed in the southeastern Caribbean on September 28.