UN warns Haiti food stocks could be drained within weeks
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New York: Stocks of food that the UN has sent to Haiti risk being exhausted by the end of April, particularly with the international airport now close...
New York: Stocks of food that the UN has sent to Haiti risk being exhausted by the end of April, particularly with the international airport now closed for a month, a UN spokesman warned on Thursday.
The Caribbean nation has been in a state of extreme insecurity since late February when gang leaders who control much of Port-au-Prince teamed up to attack police stations, prisons, the airport and the sea port in a drive to topple Prime Minister Ariel Henry.
The UN World Food Program (WFP) only has enough food inside Haiti to feed 175,000 people for a month, the UN secretary-general's spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.
The program "is ramping up food assistance in the country, but warns that its food stocks may run out by the end of this month," he added.
"The closure of Haiti's main port and airport about a month ago has also of course disrupted the flow of aid coming into Haiti," Dujarric said.