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leading the news: haiti's earthquake
Jan. 13th, 2010 03:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_future_modernesHaiti beset by series of natural disasters
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The Caribbean island nation of Haiti has been beset by a series of natural disasters in recent years, experiencing four devastating tropical storms in 2008.
Tuesday's 7.0-magnitude earthquake will only further complicate living conditions for residents of the poverty-stricken country where 80 per cent of Haiti's nearly nine million people live below the poverty line.
Al Jazeera's John Terrett reports. 13 Jan 10
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Tags:
- america central,
- america central: honduras,
- america south,
- america south: paraguay,
- caribbean,
- caribbean: haiti,
- issues: economy,
- issues: economy: agri & food,
- issues: economy: taxes,
- issues: environment,
- issues: environment: climate change,
- issues: environment: natural disaster,
- issues: environment: water issues,
- issues: health,
- issues: politics,
- issues: politics/econ./social: poverty,
- issues: women,
- issues: women: equal opportunity,
- issues: women: equal representation,
- issues: women: human rights,
- issues: women: sex workers,
- media : al jazeera,
- media: al jazeera: faultline
