4 million people face 'acute food insecurity' in troubled Haiti, says UN food agency official

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

4 million people face ‘acute food insecurity’ in troubled Haiti, says UN food agency official

BY EDITH M. LEDERER
Updated 9:54 PM EDT, March 12, 2024

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Four million people face “acute food insecurity” and one million of them are one step away from famine, the U.N. food agency’s director in the conflict-wracked Caribbean nation said Tuesday.

Jean-Martin Bauer told a virtual press conference that he’s “ringing the alarm bell” because the recent increase in gang violence has made a very bad situation even worse and displaced an additional 15,000 people — just over the first weekend in March in the capital, Port-au-Prince.

That brings the total number of displaced people in Haiti to over 360,000, he said, and the U.N. says half of them are children. The country has more than 11 million inhabitants.

Bauer said, there were 4 million food insecure and hungry Haitians during the COVID pandemic in 2020 and that number hasn’t gone down, but the number on the brink of famine has escalated to one million.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/un-haiti-humanitarian-food-famine-gang-violence-dc4115ab6d883722ef658e33f15806ba

[Irish_Dem]

1. Possible Haitian refugee crisis?

11 million starving Haitians in boats heading to Florida right before the elections.

A GOP wet dream.

[Mosby]

2. Is the US sending aid?

Maybe we should send troops as well, help them stabilize their country so they can have elections and rid them of the gangs who have taken over.

[Eugene]

3. The US tried to arrange for Kenyan troops to help stabilize the situation. Kenya just backed out.

There is little if any political support for putting American boots on the ground there.
As the US is a long-time contributor to this mess, it is questionable whether
direct US intervention would be constructive.

[Mosby]

4. I was excited when i heard that Kenya agreed to help

Not surprised they changed their minds. Maybe France should send troops. The owe Haiti a moral debt so to speak.

[littlemissmartypants]

5. There are food programs all over the world that have been trying

To address the world's hunger problems for years. The USA isn't the first line of defense in the war on hunger. You can donate to the WFP. They really need money and are the gold standard in finding and fighting famine.

https://www.wfp.org/

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World Hunger Facts

https://concernusa.org/news/world-hunger-facts/