Haiti faces fourth major storm

05.09.08 - 19:46 ... source : Christian Aid

... 05 September 2008 Haiti is bracing itself for the fourth major storm in less than a month, as Tropical Storm Ike advances from the east. Already, more than 200 lives have been lost and the United Nations is warning that more than half a million people are in need of emergency assistance after storms Fay, Gustav and Hanna battered the island.Prospery Raymond, Christian Aid's country representative said: 'The hospitals in Gonaives and Les Cayes were completely flooded. The scene is similar to September 2004 when Tropical Storm Jeanne killed well over 2,000 people.'The whole of the Artibonite valley has been flooded, which is where 80 per cent of Haitian rice is grown. Rice crops were destroyed near the point of harvesting, which can only ...» Next (HTML)