PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haitian interim President Jocelerme Privert on Tuesday played down the international aid response to Hurricane Matthew, saying some promised foreign aid had yet to materialise and that the devastated country was mostly funding its own recovery.
Southwestern Haiti was smashed by the Category 4 hurricane on Oct. 4, which barrelled through the southern coast of the poor island nation, killing some 1,000 people and displacing hundreds of thousands.
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