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• BELLE ANSE, Haiti (AP) -- The hardship of hunger abounds amid the stone homes and teepee-like huts in the mountains along Haiti's southern coast.
• The hair on broomstick-thin children has turned patchy and orangish, their stomachs have ballooned to the size of their heads and many look half their age -- the tell-tale signs of malnutrition.
• Mabriole town official Geneus Lissage fears that death is imminent for these children if Haitian authorities and humanitarian workers don't do more to stem the hunger problems.
• "They will be counting bodies," Lissage said, "because malnutrition is ravaging children, youngsters and babies."
• Three years after an earthquake killed hundreds of thousands and the U.S.

promised that Haiti would "build back better," hunger is worse than ever. And despite billions of dollars from around the world pledged toward rebuilding efforts, the country's food problems underscore just how vulnerable its 10 million people remain.
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• JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- Former President Nelson Mandela's condition remains serious but stable on Monday, his third day in a Pretoria hospital, the South African government said.
• "His condition is unchanged," the office of President Jacob Zuma said in a brief statement.
• Mandela, who is 94 years old, was taken to a hospital early Saturday to be treated for a recurring lung infection. At that time, Zuma's office described the anti-apartheid leader's condition as "serious but stable."
• On Sunday, members of Mandela's family were seen visiting the hospital where the anti-apartheid leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate is believed to be staying.

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