Four million facing ‘acute food insecurity’ in Haiti, UN official warns

FOUR million people in Haiti face acute food insecurity and one million are one step away from famine, the UN food agency’s director said on 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 in the nation even worse.
Over the first weekend in March, an additional 15,000 people were displaced in the capital, Port-au-Prince.
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