Haiti 'Overwhelmed' After Storms. BBC, September 19, 2008. "The UN special envoy to Haiti said the scale of the disaster was beyond what the UN and Haitian authorities could deal with and more international help was needed. He said the western city of Gonaives was all but destroyed and every house had been damaged or swamped by mud... Haiti was hit in the space of a month by tropical storms Fay and Hanna and hurricanes Gustav and Ike, leaving about 550 people dead. Prime Minister Michele Pierre-Louis has said that up to one million Haitians may be homeless... UN officials say the World Food Program has distributed food to more than 230,000 people in Gonaives. But about 800,000 people are in dire need of help, it says... Many of Haiti's nearly nine million population live on less than $2 a day."
2008-09-19
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