Almost half of Haiti’s people are struggling to feed themselves as gang violence spreads across the country, with several areas close to famine, international organizations said on Friday.
PORT-AU-PRINCE— Inflation and poor harvests have also helped push Haiti to its worst levels of food insecurity on record, they said. “Rising hunger is fueling the security crisis that is shattering the country. We need urgent action now — waiting to respond at scale is not an option,” Jean-Martin Bauer, the World Food Programme’s Haiti director, said.
This has now been put on hold. The FSB security service said ‘all four terrorists’ had been arrested while heading to the Ukrainian border, and that they had contacts in Ukraine. The WFP said Haiti was now suffering its worst levels of food insecurity on record, with many people resorting to desperate measures and taking on more debt as armed groups take over farmlands and steal crops.
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