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With the At­lantic hur­ri­cane sea­son un­der­way, the UN World Food Pro­gramme (WFP) is sound­ing the alarm over Haiti’s hu­man­i­tar­i­an sit­u­a­tion.

With rough­ly half the pop­u­la­tion, 5.7 mil­lion peo­ple, fac­ing some sort of emer­gency lev­el of hunger, Haiti is one of five coun­tries in the world with cat­a­stroph­ic lev­els of hunger. More than one mil­lion peo­ple in Haiti are dis­placed due to on­go­ing gang vi­o­lence and in­se­cu­ri­ty.

As the hos­til­i­ties are dis­rupt­ing the food sys­tems and sup­ply chains in the cap­i­tal, Port-au-Prince, WFP is fac­ing a “quite dra­mat­ic” sit­u­a­tion, said Re­gion­al Di­rec­tor in Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean Lo­la Cas­tro, who re­cent­ly re­turned from the coun­try.