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The New Humanitarian: Hunger in Haiti: Ten years after catastrophe struck, a new crisis looms

jess dipierro obert

Jan 13, 2020

Location: Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Photos and reporting. On assignment for The New Humanitarian. A catastrophic earthquake on 12 January, 2010, crushed much of Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, in one of the worst natural disasters ever to strike a populous urban centre. Ten years later, the Caribbean nation is on the brink of another, very different, crisis.

Hunger in Haiti: Ten years after catastrophe struck, a new crisis looms
A decade on from one of the deadliest natural disasters ever, drought, hurricanes, inflation, and political instability have left many desperate.
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