A record 4.7 million people in Haiti are facing acute hunger, including 19,000 in catastrophic famine conditions for the first time, all in a slum controlled by gangs in the capital, according to a report released Friday.
The UN World Food Program and Food and Agriculture Organization said unrelenting crises have trapped Haitians "in a cycle of growing desperation, without access to food, fuel, markets, jobs and public services, bringing the country to a standstill."
The partnership uses five categories of food security, from Phase 1 in which people have enough to eat to Phase 5 in which households have an extreme lack of food and face famine, starvation, death and destitution. The 19,000 people in Cite Soleil are now in the latter group, the report said. The World Food Program and the Food and Argiculture Organization said food insecurity has increased over the past three years and 65% of Haitians "are in high levels of food insecurity with 5% of them in urgent need of humanitarian assistance."
"Harvest losses due to below average rainfall and last year's earthquake that devastated parts of the country's south are among the shocks that worsened conditions for people," UN deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.
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