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More than one million children in Haiti are suffering critical food shortages due to violence, displacement, and limited aid access, UNICEF said Thursday. Nearly 2.9 million children—one in four—face severe food insecurity, per the IPC, a global hunger monitoring system.
More than one million children in Haiti are suffering "critical" food shortages as a result of chronic violence, displacement and restricted access to humanitarian aid, the UN children's agency said Thursday. "We are looking at a scenario where parents can no longer provide care and nutrition to their children as a result of ongoing violence, extreme poverty, and a persistent economic crisis," UNICEF 's representative in Haiti, Geeta Narayan, said in a statement. Read more Haiti’s independence ransom: Macron offers ‘truth’, Haitians want reparations Across most of Haiti, armed violence is causing a "nutrition crisis for families," the agency said.
Since the start of 2025, "UNICEF and its partners have treated over 4,600 children with severe acute malnutrition" which was "only 3.6 percent of the 129,000 children projected to need life-saving treatment this year," the body added. According to the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) used by international aid bodies, about 2.
9 million children "are facing consistently high levels of food insecurity across the country" -- or around one in four in Haiti. Read more on FRANCE 24 English Read also: Humanitarian crisis in Haiti: 'Population is on the brink of starvation,' charity says More than 10,000 displaced by Haiti gang attacks in past week, UN says.
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