Landslide kills 3 in Haiti
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Category 5 Hurricane Melissa has displaced 900 families in Haiti, with 3,653 people in the Grand Sud region’s shelters as the Atlantic storm – one of the strongest on record – approaches nearby Jamaica.
Since the start of the year, the infectious disease has affected more than 3,000 people and caused 53 deaths, mostly in the greater Port-au-Prince area.
WFP: Photo/Maria Gallar. Families endure overcrowded and unsanitary conditions Haiti, Port au Prince. Photo credit New hunger analysis reveals
While one of the country’s best known gang leaders, Jimmy “Barbecue” Chérizier, has called for some of the more than 1.3 million people who have been displaced to return home to central Port-au-Prince, members of his powerful Viv Ansanm coalition and their allies have been sowing havoc outside the capital in once peaceful communities.
A Haitian-American couple is celebrating bringing home their two adopted children from Port-au-Prince after a two-year journey.