The World Food Program has warned of an escalating famine in Haiti, where almost half of the population is food insecure due to rising inflation, rising food and fuel prices and deteriorating security.
WFP Country Director Haiti Jean-Martin Bauer stressed in today’s press release that the program continues to provide assistance to vulnerable Haitians and supports the humanitarian community with vital air and sea transport despite the closure of roads by criminal groups.
“A significant part of the population has been cut off from the economic center of the country, and this is happening at a time when Haiti is currently struggling with COVID-19, recent natural disasters, high inflation and rising prices, which are a multiplier effect of the conflict. in Ukraine,” Power said.
