Thursday, September 18, 2008

KATRINA 's Tsunami VISITS Haiti

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haiti's government and the U.N. mission to the impoverished Caribbean nation are overwhelmed by the scale of the disaster left by four recent storms, the U.N.'s special envoy to Haiti said on Thursday.

Hedi Annabi called on the international donor community to take extraordinary measures to help the poorest country in the Americas, which was hammered in the space of a month by tropical storms Fay and Hanna and hurricanes Gustav and Ike. Together they killed more than 600 people. More...

WYCLEF JEAN and MATT DAMON visited Haiti last week...For Wyclef Jean's first hand account as told to NPR: Click here