A new report says 5.41 million people are suffering ‘high levels of acute food insecurity,’ with gang wars and inflation the chief drivers of the crisis.
Nearly 48 percent of Haiti’s population faces acute food shortages amid ongoing armed gang violence, a new report said.
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification said in its report released on Monday that 5.41 million people in the beleaguered Caribbean nation were facing “high levels of acute food insecurity” between August 2024 and February 2025.
The world hunger watchdog warned that 6,000 people are “experiencing catastrophic levels of hunger” overall.
Acute Food Insecurity: Food insecurity and Acute–Haiti continues to confront a deteriorating humanitarian crisis with alarming rates of armed gang violence disrupting daily life, which is forcing more people to flee their homes. In contrast, levels of acute food insecurity rise,” the report reads.
Already reeling from years of unrest, powerful armed gangs – often with links to the country’s political and business elites – launched attacks on prisons and other state institutions across the capital, Port-au-Prince, in February.
International efforts at soothing the situation, including the naming of a new government, have done little to impose the rule of law, and the violence persists.
