Haiti - Food insecurity increases amidst gang violence (DG ECHO, IPC, National Food Security Coordination, OHCR, IOM) (ECHO Daily Flash of 15 April 2025)
Latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis reports continued increase of food insecurity with estimated 5.7 million people classified in Crisis phase or worse (IPC 3+, 700,000 people more than March 2024), including 8 400 IDPs facing catastrophic level (IPC5) and 2.1 million people in emergency (IPC 4).
Exacerbation of violence, intensification of forced displacement and continued high level of inflation remain the main contributing factors.
During the first quarter of 2025, more than 1,500 people were killed and 500 injured in Haiti, due to gangs attacks responded by security forces, self-defense groups and members of the population.
More than 1 million people were internally displaced in December 2024, a number that has tripled in the past year. Last March, sustained armed violence in Port-au-Prince forced over 60,000 people to flee, marking the most significant population movement recorded to date.