A coalition of aid agencies warns of a deepening hunger crisis in Haiti as gang violence blocks food supplies and drives up prices, leaving half the population struggling to find enough to eat.
Haiti ans wait in a queue for food in a camp for displaced people at the Lycée Marie Jeanne in Port-au-Prince, 30 September 2024. Half the country’s population now struggling to find food as lawlessness and inflation cause ‘full-blown crisis’, say aid agencies The UN World Food Programme (WFP) and its partner organisations estimate that 5.
4 million Haitians are now regularly finding it hard to get enough to eat, a record for the Caribbean nation and the largest proportion of acutely food insecure people anywhere in the world, WFP said. The figure suggests another 600,000 people have fallen into “crisis” level hunger since the previous peaks recorded earlier this year and A coalition of 12 leading aid agencies has called for immediate action to alleviate the escalating hunger crisis as gang control of major roads blocks food supplies and causes huge price rises. “Without immediate action the hunger crisis in Haiti will continue to deepen, with devastating consequences for millions of vulnerable people,” civil society groups in Port-au-Prince, including Action Against Hunger, Save the Children and Mercy Corpsbut the country was plunged into chaos when its president Jovenel Moïse was assassinated in 2021 and gangs have since seized control of more than 80% of the capital.The added cost of gang tolls on major roads combined with inflation and ever deepening poverty means food now accounts for up to 70% of total household expenditure, the 12 NGOs said., a key region for food distribution, have been blocked for months, said Angeline Annesteus, president of Cadre de Liaison Inter-Organisations (Clio), an association of 80 Haitian and foreign NGOs. “While markets may still have food, violence and inflation have driven prices out of reach for millions,” Annesteus sai
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