For a generation, people have fled the floods that routinely wash across this city for the relative safety of Port-au-Prince. Now, they're fleeing back. By busload and car, aboard smashed pickup trucks and dirty motorcycles, an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 people have poured out ...

Walking through mud with the sun beating down on his sweat-covered face, former US president Bill Clinton confronted this week the harsh reality of the country he wants to help. "I want to speed up the aid and make sure it is directed to the priorities of the Haitian people," he said Tuesday on a visit to Gonaives, a city ...

GONAIVES, Haiti (Reuters) - Former President Bill Clinton visited the mud-stained streets of the Haitian city of Gonaives on Tuesday on his first trip as United Nations special envoy to the poor Caribbean nation. Touring with Haitian President Rene Preval, Clinton said his priority was to marshal pledges from donor nations to build road networks, education and health care systems and ...