Haiti also supported the American Revolution by sending troops to the Battle of Savannah in Georgia in 1779... READ MORE›
The death toll in Haiti from Hurricane Matthew, the most powerful Caribbean storm in a decade, soars past 300 as Florida braces for landfall... READ MORE›
Compound in Les Cayes, 299 deaths have been confirmed just in parts of southern Haiti... READ MORE›
Four people were killed over the weekend in the Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti... READ MORE›
Marc Arthur Saint Fleur, 41, lies on a mattress in the sun on his roof in the fishing village of Carpentier in Port-Salut, Haiti, on Oct. 26... READ MORE›
The hurricane, which hit Haiti on Tuesday, brought 145mph winds and torrential rains that destroyed more than 3,200 homes, displaced 15,000 people, ruined plantations and drowned animals... READ MORE›
Hurricane Matthew New life amid Haiti's 'forgotten disaster'... READ MORE›
LES CAYES, Haiti -- The death toll from Hurricane Matthew soared above 100 Thursday as the scope of the devastation in Haiti became clearer, officials said... READ MORE›
Haiti has been in the path of the storm just way too often,... READ MORE›
Fears of cholera outbreak and food shortages as Caribbean nation's crops are wiped out by Hurricane Matthew... READ MORE›
Matthew had dropped slightly to a Category 3 storm after crossing land in Haiti and eastern Cuba, but strengthened once again to a Category 4, officials said... READ MORE›
Four people were killed over the weekend in the Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti... READ MORE›
A slightly weakened Matthew was expected to make landfall in Florida on Thursday... READ MORE›
The United Nations appealed for 119 million US on Monday to bring life-saving assistance to 750,000 people in southwest Haiti... READ MORE›
Residents of Les Cayes and surrounding areas came to the school the night of the storm, wading through floodwaters... READ MORE›
Ban expressed disappointment, however, that international funding to fight cholera in Haiti and rebuild after Matthew is so far falling far short... READ MORE›
Clifford Gauther, the health ministry?s director for Haiti?s Sud Department, said Cholera treatment centers, many made of metal sheeting, were destroyed by the hurricane... READ MORE›
Heavy rain also fell on Jamaica and dangerous rainfall was a threat for the Dominican Republic, which adjoins Haiti... READ MORE›
Yvonne Helle, the UN Development Programme's Haiti director, said people in Grand'Anse had lost everything... READ MORE›
Northern eyewall of extremely dangerous Hurricane Matthew already pounding the eastern tip of Cuba, read the latest bulletin from the National Hurricane Center issued at 2100 GMT... READ MORE›
Catholic Relief Services, a charity active in Haiti, reported flooding and toppled trees in Les Cayes, where it has an office... READ MORE›
Ban Ki-moon said he witnessed a looting incident in Les Cayes, where he promised more aid to Haiti... READ MORE›
Haiti faces serious concerns about its food supply in the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew, which wiped out crops and livestock... READ MORE›
Guy Philippe was arrested Thursday as he appeared on a live radio talk show... READ MORE›
The USS Iwo Jima, an amphibious assault ship with more than 500 Marines and 225 pallets of supplies aboard, was also racing toward Haiti on Monday... READ MORE›
Debris is scattered along the shoreline of Les Cayes, nearly a week after Hurricane Matthew hit Haiti, leaving an estimated 1,000 people dead and thousands more homeless... READ MORE›
At least 100 people have died and thousands have been displaced, mostly in southern Haiti, due to Hurricane Matthew... READ MORE›
The United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF warned that more than 4 million children were at risk in Haiti... READ MORE›
People in the seaside communities of Port Salut and Les Cayes said scant aid had reached them by Sunday... READ MORE›
As Hurricane Matthew's outer bands began pounding Jamaica and southwest Haiti on Monday, the long-term forecast for Florida took a bleak turn... READ MORE›
At a central hospital in Les Cayes, two new cholera cases had shown up Thursday, but the hospital staff didn't have medicine needed to treat it... READ MORE›
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