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Downpours Ruin Spring Harvest in Beleaguered Southwest Haiti

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Flooding in southwest Haiti has wiped out as much as 80 percent of the spring harvest in a beleaguered region that is nearly completely dependent on farming, officials said Friday. About five days of rain saturated swaths of the Caribbean region and triggered flooding across southwest Haiti, drowning crops and causing at least four deaths in the area that was overwhelmed by Hurricane Matthew last year. Enzo Di Taranto, the head of Haiti's U.N. Office for the Coordination of...

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