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More than 150,000 people are surviving on donated food in the flood-battered city of Gonaives and the United Nations says more aid is needed to stave off famine in Haiti four months after ravaging storms.
Haiti is already struggling with chronic malnutrition.
The U.N. World Food Program is asking countries to donate $100 million for Haiti, saying current funding will last only through February. It requested the same last year but received only $68 million.
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