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AFP: Flood risk for more than 200,000 homeless Haitians

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Andrew Gully reports for Agence France Presse on how the the survivors of the Haitian earthquake are now preparing themselves for the risk of major flooding.

"We have time. We don't have much, but we have some time to prepare better and inform people of what their choices are" said Kristen Knutson, from for the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) (UN-OCHA), as more than 200,000 camp in squalid tent cities at risk of major flooding.

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