Haiti hunger crisis: UN aid reaches Port-au-Prince as gang violence persists

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Haiti hunger crisis: UN aid reaches Port-au-Prince as gang violence persists


Food and medicine from the UN’s World Food Programme have finally reached Port-au-Prince. The airport has reopened, allowing supplies to be distributed despite armed groups controlling the roads and port. The UN has delivered over 600 tons of food to over 90,000 people in Cite Soleil, but more is needed. Haiti faces widespread violence and…

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  1. This is not the full picture. Often a big country prevents the national police from confronting the gangs. Go figure! Remember that the people that funded and armed the gangs were put in power under the influence of the big country mentioned above. Go figure!

  2. To curb this influx of migrants wanting to come to the US by any means necessary, I propose "capitalizing Caribbean and Latin poor country economies with remittances from the US". In 2012, I published a case study in book format titled- Roadmap to Haiti's Next Revolution. Good read. And a plausible idea.

  3. Wow…Haiti was a country in the 1990s 1980s that produced massives foods and exported rice and the black pig meat to all the carribean countries. But Bill Clinton and the NGOs came in and destroyed the country…greeedy unpatriotic Haitian politicians contributed to what is Haiti now.

  4. Haitians brought this misery on themselves, they are now treated like an infantile people, no aid no international intervention. Haitians must sort themselves out