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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.