Haiti pledges quick response as report finds almost 6M Haitians face hunger crisis, deportations to Haiti worsen situation

Haiti pledges quick response as report finds almost 6M Haitians face hunger crisis, deportations to Haiti worsen situation

By The Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Haiti’s government pledged Friday a quick response to growing hunger in the troubled Caribbean country as a new report warned that more than half the population is experiencing crisis levels of hunger or worse. At least 5.7 million Haitians are at the crisis level, with 1.9 million of those facing emergency levels of hunger, according to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, the l…

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THE alert follows the release of the latest analysis of the Integrated Food Security Classification (IPC), which reveals that a record number of people in the Caribbean country are experiencing acute levels of hunger. “Half of Haiti suffers from hunger”, PAM said executive director Cindy McCain in a tweet. “While 5.7 million people face severe […] Source