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January 09, 2015

Five years on, Haiti struggles with quake legacy
Port-Au-Prince (AFP) Jan 8, 2015
Five years after a powerful earthquake demolished Haiti's capital, more than a million homeless survivors have been rehoused, but thousands remain under canvas, or struggle with trauma and injury. In the immediate aftermath of the disaster, as the world's media scrambled over wreckage dotted with the corpses of more than 300,000 victims, billions of dollars in foreign aid was pledged. But much of it never came through. And Haiti's own efforts to get on its feet were hampered by ongoing polit ... read more

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