{"id":261130,"date":"2024-04-29T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T11:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=261130"},"modified":"2024-04-28T09:42:28","modified_gmt":"2024-04-28T08:42:28","slug":"senior-un-aid-official-urges-comprehensive-response-to-haiti-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/04\/senior-un-aid-official-urges-comprehensive-response-to-haiti-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior UN Aid Official Urges Comprehensive Response to Haiti Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Thousands been driven from their homes in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince. \u00a9 UNICEF\/Herold Joseph<\/p><\/div>\n

25 Apr 2024 – The ongoing crisis in Haiti is having a \u201cmassive\u201d and \u201cdevastating\u201d impact, with over half the population acutely food insecure and more than one million staring at emergency levels of hunger, a senior UN World Food Programme (WFP) official said today.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Haitians have been facing a multitude of challenges over the years, encompassing political, security, social and economic issues. The protracted crisis has been further exacerbated by months of brutal gang violence that claimed more than 2,500 lives in the first quarter of 2024 alone.<\/p>\n

Having recently returned from the country, Carl Skau, WFP<\/a> Deputy Executive Director, told journalists at UN Headquarters in New York that the crisis was the worst since the 2010 Haiti earthquake.<\/p>\n

\u201cHalf the population \u2013 some five million people are acutely food insecure,\u201d he said, adding that over a million are in the IPC Phase 4 or Emergency level of hunger.<\/p>\n

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He stressed that a political and security response to the crisis needs to be accompanied by a robust humanitarian response.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I saw on the ground is that this can be done<\/strong>, also at the centre of the crisis, in Port-au-Prince. But that we need also to do more on resilience and development elsewhere to really try to break this vicious cycle<\/strong>,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u2018Crisis felt everywhere\u2019<\/h2>\n

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