U.N. to Deliver Aid to Haiti After Floods
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GONAIVES, Haiti - Bodies lay in growing piles outside morgues as U.N. peacekeepers planned the first major distribution of food and water Wednesday in this city devastated by floods that have torn apart families and left hungry crowds that have mobbed truckloads of aid...
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The government in Haiti is making plans to evacuate one of its largest cities, following floods caused by the tropical storm Jeanne.
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At least 556 people died after floodwaters raged through Haiti in the wake of tropical storm Jeanne, a UN spokesman says. Aid agencies counted some 500 bodies in the northern coastal city of Gonaives, the
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The United Nations and other agencies offered aid and helicopters to Pakistan Monday after floods unleashed by a cyclone and days of torrential rain left 1.5 million people devastated.
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The World Bank likely will redirect money from existing projects in the Asian nations devastated by earthquakes and flooding to provide immediate assistance for reconstruction, officials said Monday.
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GONAIVES, Haiti - The staggering death toll from Tropical Storm Jeanne shot upward to an estimated 1,500 people Saturday, with 900 Haitians still missing as a thunderstorm drenched the homeless who are living on rooftops and sidewalks.    U.N...
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Secretary-General Kofi Annan said yesterday that the United Nations had received pledges of $500 million to pay for emergency assistance to victims of the south Asia earthquake and tsunami.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE : Disaster relief crews battled to get emergency aid to 170,000 people affected by floods that killed more than 700 in Haiti, a Caribbean nation that ranks among the world&#39;s poorest.
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Floods triggered by nearly two weeks of heavy rain have washed away roads and bridges, wiped out crops and killed at least three people in western Haiti, the International Red Cross said Tuesday.
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GONAIVES, Haiti  - More than a week after  devastating floods hit northern Haiti the death count rose  sharply as reports came in from remote areas on Monday and aid  workers struggled to feed thousands of desperate people.
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The United Nations on Friday  asked wealthy nations to donate an extra $59 million in aid to  help about 400,000 people in Grenada and Haiti recover from a  recent wave of storms and flooding.
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Devastating floods in northern Haiti have claimed more than a 1000 lives and seriously wounded another 900. And a UN official in the impoverished Caribbean nation told journalists on Thursday that another 1200 people are missing and possibly dead.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - U.N. peacekeepers in Haiti  urgently need reinforcements to cope with surging violence in  the Caribbean country devastated by tropical storms, Brazil's  foreign minister said on Thursday.
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Tropical Storm Jeanne killed at least 250 people and injured at least 380 in northern Haiti, the United Nations said. UN spokeswoman Denise Cook said the bodies of 250 people were in
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AT least 250 people died in massive floods across northern Haiti after Tropical Storm Jeanne hit the crushingly poor Caribbean nation over the weekend, a UN spokesman said today.
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Bodies lay in growing piles outside morgues as UN peacekeepers planned the first major distribution of food and water Wednesday in this city devastated by floods that tore apart families and left hungry crowds that have mobbed
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More than 250 people died in floods and mudslides in Haiti caused by the tropical storm Jeanne over the weekend, the United Nations said yesterday.