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Weekly Report - 13 October 2016 (WR-16-40)
HAITI: A new humanitarian crisis
Destruction on an “apocalyptic scale” is how Haiti’s interim president Jocelerme Privert described the impact of Category 4 Hurricane ‘Matthew’ which struck Haiti on 4 October, five days before restaged presidential and partial legislative elections were due to take place. The following day the head of the provisional electoral council (CEP), Léopold Berlanger, confirmed that the election would be suspended. This is the second time the vote had been suspended since January 2016, when one of the two run-off candidates, Jude Célestin of the opposition Ligue Alternative Pour le Progrés et l’Emancipation Haïtienne (Lapeh), refused to take part, citing the massive fraud which marred the 25 October 2015 first round. With no further date set, Privert warning of famine, and international relief organisations signalling concerns about the spread of cholera, the task awaiting the next government – rebuilding a country yet to recover from the January 2010 earthquake – remains monumental.
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