US Edition'Single Storm' Could Push Thousands of Haitians Into Hunger, WFP Warns as Hurricane Season Begins
- The World Food Program warned on June 3, 2025, that Haiti faces a potential humanitarian catastrophe if a single storm hits during the hurricane season starting June 1.
- This warning follows years of political instability, rising gang violence displacing over one million people, and half the country already experiencing emergency-level hunger.
- WFP reported no contingency supplies or logistical buffers remain, while food systems in Port-au-Prince are disrupted amid violence and displacement, especially affecting women and girls.
- Regional Director Lola Castro said WFP needs $46.4 million over six months to sustain emergency response and tackle hunger causes, amid only eight percent funding of the $908 million 2025 plan.
- Without urgent funding and support, WFP will lack capacity to respond, increasing risk that a storm during the hurricane season could push millions of Haitians into deeper hunger.
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MSN'Single storm' could push thousands of Haitians into hunger, WFP warns as hurricane season begins
A single storm could push hundreds of thousands of Haitians into hunger, the World Food Program has warned, as hurricane season begins across the Caribbean.
UNITED NATIONS – Haiti is very vulnerable to the hurricane season on the Caribbean that began on June 1, because with half of its inhabitants already suffering from hunger, a single storm could plunge millions of people into a humanitarian catastrophe, warn United Nations agencies. Lola Castro, [...] This article Hunger and hurricanes loom as threats to Haiti was originally published on IPS News Agency
As the hurricane season begins, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Tuesday that it is ill-equipped to respond to a potential new disaster in Haiti, a country where more than half the population is severely food insecure. In the country, which has been plagued for years by political instability, economic crisis and gang violence, some 5.7 million people are already facing acute food insecurity, according to the latest report from the Int…
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Haiti: WFP concerned over humanitarian situation as hurricane season begins
As the hurricane season gets underway in the Caribbean, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) is sounding the alarm over Haiti’s humanitarian situation.
With the onset of the hurricane season, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Tuesday, June 3, that it would be unable to cope with any new catastrophe in Haiti, where more than half of the population suffers acute food insecurity and aid is scarcely forthcoming. In a country plagued by political instability, the economic crisis and gang violence, some 5.7 million people are already facing acute food insecurity, according to the latest rep…
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