Quake-hit Haiti faces tropical storm with thousands homeless
By DW
22 August 2021 |
10:57 am
Doctors and nurses from home and abroad are struggling against a range of logistical difficulties to get people patched up before a storm hits Haiti. Rebels hold key roads and infection is spreading.
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