Haiti’s displaced facing ‘catastrophic’ food insecurity

Issued on: 01/10/2024 - 

Aid workers test for malnutrition at a centre for displaced people in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Septeber 20, 2024. © Reuters/WFP

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A new report has found that more than half of Haiti’s population is suffering from acute hunger amid political instability and a security crisis that has seen armed gangs take control of vast swaths of the country. The country’s large number of internally displaced are at particular risk, according to the UN’s World Food Programme.

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