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The call came Thursday morning from a cellphone Guival Mercedat&#39;s sister had managed to find an outlet to charge in Gonaives, her storm-ravaged hometown in northern Haiti.
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GONAIVES, Haiti - Rescuers pulled bodies from floodwaters that raged through parts of Haiti's third-largest city, sweeping people from their homes and forcing survivors to spend the night in trees, atop cars and on rooftops following Tropical Storm Jeanne. The death toll nearly doubled to 241 Monday evening after dozens more bodies were recovered...
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GONAIVES, Haiti  - More than a week after floods  devastated this impoverished Haitian city, aid workers were  struggling to bring food and clean water to thousands of  residents, some still perched on roofs.
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Port-au-Prince Rescuers face washed-out roads and increased crime as they seek to deliver emergency aid to vast areas of Haiti, where more than 700 people were killed after weekend landslides and flooding triggered by Tropical Storm Jeanne.
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GONAIVES, Haiti Sept. 20, 2004 - Rescuers pulled bodies from floodwaters that raged through parts of Haiti&#39;s third-largest city, sweeping people from their homes and forcing survivors to spend the night
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GONAIVES, HAITI - The lines grew longer and the people more desperate as flood victims in this city begged for food and clean water in order to survive another day.
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Locals look at flood victims killed at the La Providence Hospital, in Gonaives, Haiti, Sept. 21, 2004, after floods from Tropical Storm Jeanne swept the town killing at least 620 people.
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GONAIVES, Haiti Sept. 22, 2004 - UN peacekeepers fired into the air to keep a hungry crowd at bay Wednesday as aid workers handed out bread, the first food in days for some in this city devastated by floods
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GONAIVES, Haiti -- Blood swirled in knee-deep flood waters as workers stacked bodies outside the hospital morgue yesterday. Carcasses of pigs, goats, and dogs, and pieces of smashed furniture floated in muddy streams that once were the streets of this battered city. Desperate people swarmed a truck delivering water.
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Insecurity continues to hamper relief efforts in northern Haiti, as rescue workers struggle to distribute relief supplies to thousands of flood victims in the city of Gonaives.
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Rescuers are struggling to help the victims of tropical storm Jeanne, which has led to the death of over 2,000 people in northern Haiti, reports from the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince said.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti  - A contingent of 95 riot  police from China arrived in Haiti on Sunday to help restore  order in the Caribbean nation plagued with gang and political  violence that has killed more than 50 people over the past two  weeks.
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Relief agencies responding to the disaster in southern Asia, Indonesia and Thailand are seeking financial support locally for their efforts.
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New York, Sept. 22 (NNN): Haiti&#39;s president Boniface Alexandre on Tuesday appealed for aid to help the island nation in the aftermath of tropical storm Jeanne whose floods that have claimed nearly 700 lives and left another 1000 missing.
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Prime Minister Paul Martin says the international community wants to help Haiti, but the people of the country must help themselves.
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Counterinsurgency efforts focus on better grasping and meeting local needs.
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GONAIVES, Haiti -- Since flash floods swept away more than 2,000 residents here this fall, the recovery effort in Haiti's third-largest city has been agonizingly slow and dangerous.