4 million people face 'acute food insecurity' in troubled Haiti, says UN food agency official
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Four million people face 'acute food insecurity' and one million of them are one step away from famine, the UN food agency's director in the conflict-wracked Caribbean nation said Tuesday.
Four million people face "acute food insecurity" and one million of them are one step away from famine, the UN food agency's director in the conflict-wracked Caribbean nation said Tuesday.
Jean-Martin Bauer told a virtual press conference that he's "ringing the alarm bell" because the recent increase in gang violence has made a very bad situation even worse and displaced an additional 15,000 people -- just over the first weekend in March in the capital, Port-au-Prince.
That brings the total number of displaced people in Haiti to over 360,000, he said, and the UN says half of them are children.
Bauer said, there were four million food insecure and hungry Haitians during the COVID pandemic in 2020 and that number hasn't gone down, but the number on the brink of famine has escalated to one million.
Port-au-Prince has been turned into "a bubble" where gangs control the roads, the port and airport are closed, and no one can get in or get out, Bauer said.
The World Food Program director said the agency and its partners started a hot meal service for newly displaced people in the capital, starting with 2,000 meals a day and now up to nearly 14,000 meals a day.
But he said the WFP warehouse will run out of supplies in a few weeks unless the port is reopened to replenish the agency's stocks.
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