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Haiti Faces Growing Threat of Famine
- The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization and World Food Programme released their semi-annual Hunger Hotspots report on Monday highlighting rising famine risks in Haiti and 12 other countries.
- The report warns that escalating gang violence, economic shocks, and conflict have worsened food insecurity in Haiti amid critical funding shortfalls undermining aid delivery.
- Haiti is experiencing severe food insecurity, with 8,400 individuals currently in IPC Phase 5 and an estimated 5.7 million people—over half the population—expected to suffer from acute hunger throughout the year, while armed gangs control more than 85% of Port-au-Prince.
- World Food Programme Executive Director Cindy McCain highlighted that while the locations and populations most vulnerable to increasing hunger are identified, saving lives remains impossible without adequate funding and access.
- The report emphasizes the need for immediate humanitarian support and unified global collaboration to tackle conflict, displacement, and funding shortfalls in order to avert famine and safeguard livelihoods in these critical regions.
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Hunger crisis deepens in global hotspots as famine risk rises: UN
Extreme hunger is intensifying in 13 global hot spots, with Gaza, Sudan, South Sudan, Haiti and Mali at immediate risk of famine without urgent humanitarian intervention, a joint UN report warned on Monday.
A joint report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) revealed a worsening of hunger at 13 critical points on the planet over the next five months, of which five are at immediate risk of starvation. Sudan, Palestine, South Sudan, Haiti and Mali are the epicentres of greatest concern; in these regions, communities are at risk of famine or face high levels of food insecurity.
In the absence of urgent humanitarian intervention, populations will suffer from a worsening of severe malnutrition.
People in the Sudan and South Sudan, Gaza, Haiti and Mali will face a deadly risk of famine in the coming months due to the lack of urgent humanitarian intervention and coordinated action in the face of conflicts in these countries, warns the UN on Monday.
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