About 5.7 million people have malnutrition in Haiti, a country shaken by gang violence, and their numbers will approach 6 million in the coming months, a report released by the IPC (integrated framework for food security) yesterday.

Half and more population of the Caribbean country (5.7 million, 51%) It is already confronted with eating insecurity. Of this total, nearly 1.9 million (17% of the population) is ranked at IPC 4 (emergency status) and 3.8 million at IPC 3 level (crisis), the UN reference system reports.

These numbers are not much different from those of the previous analysis, which had been made public in April, but it is a good news: 8,400 people ranked at the IPC 5 level (the latter, devastating, is equivalent to starvation) in displaced camps are no longer in it, thanks to targeted humanitarian interventions.

But it is expected ‘Light deterioration of the situation’ in the following months and it is foreseen that 5.91 million people They will be facing nutritional insecurity by June 2026, the IPC points out.

Haiti, the poorest country in the western hemisphere, remains immersed in multidimensional crisis and political instability for decades and is broken by gang violencewhich attributes murders, rape, looting and kidnapping for ransom.

The situation has deteriorated even more spectacularly than early 2024, when gangs exiled De Facto Prime Minister Ariel Henry to give up. Haiti, where elections have been held since 2016, has been ruling by the middle of last year, the so -called Presidential Transition Council.