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Funds to feed Haitians are scarce

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Funds to feed Haitians are scarce

Europa Press

The newspaper La Jornada
Saturday, July 13, 2024, p. 23

The United Nations (UN) warned yesterday of the lack of sufficient funds to address the humanitarian crisis in Haiti, where acute hunger already affects 5 million people, arguing that international donors have provided barely a quarter of the $680 million estimated in February. The needs are immense and the resources insufficientsaid officials of the organization, after a four-day visit to the Caribbean country, where at least 1.6 million people are at risk of dying of hunger. For her part, the director of operations and promotion of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Edem Wosornu, denounced that Haitians are paying the high price of violenceforcing nearly 600,000 people to leave their homes.