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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.
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