Senior UN Aid Official Urges Comprehensive Response to Haiti Crisis
LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN, 29 Apr 2024
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service
Thousands been driven from their homes in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince. © UNICEF/Herold Joseph
25 Apr 2024 – The ongoing crisis in Haiti is having a “massive” and “devastating” impact, with over half the population acutely food insecure and more than one million staring at emergency levels of hunger, a senior UN World Food Programme (WFP) official said today.
Haitians have been facing a multitude of challenges over the years, encompassing political, security, social and economic issues. The protracted crisis has been further exacerbated by months of brutal gang violence that claimed more than 2,500 lives in the first quarter of 2024 alone.
Having recently returned from the country, Carl Skau, WFP Deputy Executive Director, told journalists at UN Headquarters in New York that the crisis was the worst since the 2010 Haiti earthquake.
“Half the population – some five million people are acutely food insecure,” he said, adding that over a million are in the IPC Phase 4 or Emergency level of hunger.
He stressed that a political and security response to the crisis needs to be accompanied by a robust humanitarian response.
“What I saw on the ground is that this can be done, also at the centre of the crisis, in Port-au-Prince. But that we need also to do more on resilience and development elsewhere to really try to break this vicious cycle,” he added.
‘Crisis felt everywhere’
Tags: Anglo America, Colonialism, Crisis, Economic Crisis, Haiti, Hunger, Imperialism, Latin America Caribbean, Political Crisis, USA
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