| Gonaives, Haiti, the way
of Babylon, after four potent hurricanes - September 19-26, 2008 |
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| Haiti President Rene Preval (L) listens as Sierra Leone
President Ernest Bai Koroma speaks during the Clinton Global Initiative in
New York September 26, 2008. Established by former U.S. President Bill
Clinton in 2005, the event is designed to bring donors together with people
in need to try to solve global problems.REUTERS/Chip East (UNITED STATES) |
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| A woman walks through mud in Gonaives, Haiti, Saturday,
Sept. 20, 2008. As Haiti's President Rene Preval pleaded for long-term
assistance in a speech to the U.N. General Assembly Friday, Gonaives,
Haiti's ravaged fourth-largest city, in the aftermath of Tropical Storm
Hanna and Hurricane Ike, remains encased in mud. Children play in it and
adults try to remove it with muddy buckets and rags.(AP Photo/Ariana
Cubillos) |
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| A man shovels mud in Gonaives, Haiti, Thursday, Sept. 18,
2008. The floodwaters from three hurricanes and a tropical storms are
receding and leaving Haiti with mud-caked streets.(AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos) |
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| Household items are left to dry on a muddy street after
flooding in the town of Gonaives September 20, 2008. Haiti has been blasted
by four storms - Hurricanes Gustav and Ike and Tropical Storms Fay and Hanna
- since mid-August, killing hundreds and destroying homes and crops.REUTERS/
Eduardo Munoz (HAITI) |
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| People remove mud at a medical center in Gonaives, Haiti,
Saturday, Sept. 20, 2008. As Haiti's President Rene Preval pleaded for
long-term assistance in a speech to the U.N. General Assembly Friday,
Gonaives, Haiti's ravaged fourth-largest city, in the aftermath of Tropical
Storm Hanna and Hurricane Ike, remains encased in mud. Children play in it
and adults try to remove it with muddy buckets and rags.(AP Photo/Ariana
Cubillos) |
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| A foot covered in mud is seen in Gonaives, Haiti, Friday,
Sept. 19, 2008. As Haiti's President Rene Preval pleaded for long-term
assistance in a speech to the U.N. General Assembly Friday, Gonaives,
Haiti's ravaged fourth-largest city, in the aftermath of Tropical Storm
Hanna and Hurricane Ike, remains encased in mud. Children play in it and
adults try to remove it with muddy buckets and rags.(AP Photo/Ariana
Cubillos) |
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| Furniture is stuck in the mud inside a house in Gonaives, Haiti,
Friday, Sept. 19, 2008. As Haiti's President Rene Preval pleaded for
long-term assistance in a speech to the U.N. General Assembly
Friday, Gonaives, Haiti's ravaged fourth-largest city, in the
aftermath of Tropical Storm Hanna and Hurricane Ike, remains encased
in mud. Children play in it and adults try to remove it with muddy
buckets and rags.(AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos) |
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| A man makes charcoal in the town of Gonaives September 21,
2008.REUTERS/ Eduardo Munoz (HAITI) |
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