Guerinault Louis/Anadolu via Getty Images International humanitarian experts said on Friday that Haiti’s gang war has pushed food insecurity to record levels in the long-suffering country, with conditions very close to the technical definition of famine reported in several areas.
Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), a multi-partner initiative established in 2004 to measure and quantify food insecurity, raised the alarm. IPC produces reports that governments, non-governmental agencies, and charities around the world use to determine the need for food assistance.
IPC’s latest alert for Haiti cited the high number of internally displaced persons (IDPs), especially the thousands driven from the capital city of Port-au-Prince by gang violence, as a major factor in the rising hunger crisis. The report also blamed “low agricultural production due to below-normal rainfall” and “the lack of previously planned humanitarian aid.” Gang leader Jimmy “Barbecue” Cherizier with G-9 federation gang members in the Delmas 3 […]
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