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Hunger in Haiti is soaring while humanitarian aid is dwindling, says the UN
Children line up to receive a plate of food at a shelter for families displaced by gang violence, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, March 14, 2024

HUNGER in Haiti is soaring as humanitarian aid supplies run low, the United Nations said today

Gangs in the Caribbean nation continue to suffocate the country.

Aid groups say that around 1.4 million Haitians are on the verge of famine, and more than four million require food aid, sometimes eating only once a day or nothing at all.

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