Haiti: No Trees, No Top-Soil; Lethal Mudslides Highlight Urgent Need for Reforestation, and Agrarian Reform

2004-05-30

Hundreds - perhaps thousands - of people have been killed by mudslides and flash foods in the border region around Malpasse, Fond Verettes, Thiotte and Grand Gosier.

Heavy rain has been falling in parts of Haiti for weeks. The whole south of the country has been more or less cut off from the capital, Port-au-Prince, the centre and the north, for several weeks after the Acul River burst its banks and carried away the only road at the town of Léogâne.

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