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A combination photo shows people carrying their belongings as they evacuate from their flooded house during floods May 16, 2014 (top) and the same place after floods October 8, 2014 in Topcic Polje. Bosnia's 3.3 million voters will choose a new political elite across six layers of government on October 12, 2014, in an election that, had it happened a few months ago, might have been a catalyst for change. But hopes that civil unrest in February would usher in a brighter future for a country riven by corruption and ethnic and ideological divisions have been all but extinguished in the aftermath of devastating floods that struck three months later. Senahida Kovacevic, whose village, Topcic Polje, was wiped off the map during the floods, says she has spent every day since mid-May in rubber boots, clearing her home of the mud that buried it during the worst rains to hit Bosnia in more than a century. From the 800 million euros ($1 billion) in aid pledged by international donors to help the country recover, 47-year-old Kovacevic, her mother and the three brothers she lives with received a couple of doors and windows, which didn't fit. Complaints about the misuse of foreign flood aid are rife, sharpening the perception of a corrupt political elite that has left would-be voters disillusioned and despairing of change almost 20 years after the end of Bosnia's 1992-95 war. (Photo by Dado Ruvic/Reuters)
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