The annual hurricanes that pass through its country let the world know about Haiti. What the world saw in Haiti was always an image of floods and pain. In 2010, we saw another, a different suffering in Haiti. A densely populated city was hit by a violent earthquake. Haiti was devastated. 230,000 lives were lost; [...]
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Haiti quake
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14 Jan
Tens of thousands of people were feared to have died after an earthquake of magnitude 7.0 devastated Haiti. Schools, hospitals and homes in Port-au-Prince collapsed, as did the parliament building and the headquarters of the United Nations mission. The Red Cross said a third of Haiti’s 9 million people would probably need emergency help. +Read [...]
