The UN has warned it could take days for the full impact of Hurricane Matthew in Haiti to emerge, as the death toll soars to more than 800 dead.
The death toll has doubled, and may rise, as rescue teams gain access to southern areas cut off by the storm.
The World Food Programme’s Carlos Veloso says some of the hard-hit towns can only be reached by air or sea.
Many of the deaths in Haiti were in the south-western coast, which suffered the full force of the hurricane this week.
Hurricane Matthew is currently battering the coastline of the US state of Florida but has been downgraded to a Category Two storm, with sustained wind speed dropping to 110mph ( 177km/h).
Category five is the strongest on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale of hurricane intensity.
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Rescue efforts are under way to assess the destruction left in the wake of the most powerful Caribbean storm in a decade.
Haiti’s Civil Protection Agency on Friday doubled the death toll from the hurricane from 400 to more than 800.
Question how is the disaster preparedness of haiti. Didn’t people vacate when they were warned ?
The free world implores the clinton fuckindation and the reed cross to help haiti again.
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May the creator be with our haitian brothers… But then again, its just another sad example showing how incompetent black led nations are in every aspect. Whether in africa or the west. Hata hapa home, its just a matter of time, i shudder to think what would happen if a serious earthquake hit Nairobi. The devastation would be ernomous if events in the past teach us anything. If Those buildings fall by themselves, it would only take a mid scale earthquake to nudge them down. Africans, we only love pussy, dancing, eating and corruption. A sad fact we need to change
Haiti ni country ya masufferer. una expect sufferer zihamie wapi? Wakisema waenda pale streets wataibiwa na thugs
this nation is badly placed in the world…
its just the centre of disaster hotspots. … too bad all those ppl had to die
if an earthquake hit nai I think no one wld have it rougher than the other. .whether uptown or downtown we wld all suffer terribly
it is gud for her presidential campaign
I wonder too but since it is a relatively poor nation there’s not much they could do…however am sure there are many who evacuated the place b4 it struck
Hurricanes hit the US boss everytime. Katrina was the one i saw mass devastation. But at least they try to put measures to minimize the damage. Sad to say but give that island to other guys you will be amazed at how they will be prepared for such.
If you know you are living in an area which is bound to experience such, you should at least look for ways to counter such disasters. And it starts with necesarry structural engineering laws, proper and efficient emergency evacuation measures, investment in disaster detection equipment etc etc… this wont completely stop the damage, but will greatly minimize it. All of this boils down to government policy and cant happen when they are busy looting, partying, fuckin and shooting each other on the streets.
Each country in the world has its own challenges with the forces of nature. The difference is how you tackle them. Or you dont think freezing weather in europe is not a challenge? How did europeans achieved living in conditions which can be likened to living in a fridge? On the flip side, many fertile countries in africa will always be crying for aid once the dry weather comes and hunger bites. That is also a natural calamity. It just depends on how well it is tackled. And it all boils down to govt policy.
This country got no luck at all.
why, of all the countries around Haiti that the storm passed through, was it the only nation with all these casualties? Come on? kuna shida mahali. Hata tukisema colonialism sijui nini, all those countries were once colonized, kuna shida mahali kubwa sana. Its all down to selfish and corrupt leadership
It was hit with a devastating earthquake in 2010 that it’s yet to fully recover from.
phweeks I expected somehow to have a Dick/Penis to be thrown into a statement somewhere. kweli ni weekend
to what?
Let’s look first how that Haiti country came into existence .it did because some of the freed slaves were dumped there . They had to look for the worst place to dump these freed African slaves and the best place for them was where they could die quick and that was at the eye of every hurricanes and call it …
Hehe trust gashwin to come up with a comment like this… Boss nibakishie makodofia kiasi [ATTACH=full]61419[/ATTACH]
What you are saying is they would rather die than get robbed. S. M. H
Upuss…