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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Luke Taylor

UN unable to feed 100,000 Haitians this month amid ‘catastrophic’ conditions

A health worker from a local organization known as OCCED'H measures the arm circumference of 6-month-old Soraya Bousciquot, who is suffering from ma , lnutritionin the Delmas 2 neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, July 13, 2023.
A health worker examines a six-month-old child in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, last week. Photograph: Odelyn Joseph/AP

The World Food Programme (WFP) will be unable to feed 100,000 Haitians this month as the UN agency has insufficient funding to meet burgeoning humanitarian needs in the embattled Caribbean nation.

Haitians grappling with dire malnutrition will have to endure the absence of vital food and financial support amid the worst hunger crisis the country has ever witnessed, the WFP announced on Monday.

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