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Haiti’s gov­ern­ment an­nounced new aus­ter­i­ty mea­sures on Tues­day as the war in Iran dis­rupts crit­i­cal oil sup­plies and dri­ves up prices world­wide.

Of­fi­cials in the trou­bled Caribbean coun­try im­posed a ban on the pur­chase of any new ve­hi­cles, will re­duce fu­el ex­pen­di­tures for pub­lic in­sti­tu­tions and said that for­eign trav­el will be lim­it­ed to es­sen­tial mis­sions au­tho­rized by the prime min­is­ter.

In ad­di­tion, se­cu­ri­ty es­corts will be lim­it­ed to one ve­hi­cle in a coun­try where gangs con­trol an es­ti­mat­ed 90% of the cap­i­tal, Port-au-Prince, and swaths of rur­al ar­eas.