What it means: UN chief calls for urgent international aid for Haiti
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Less than a quarter of the funding the U.N. seeks for Haiti has been pledged. We’ve curated must-read analysis on what this means for the country.
Haiti has received less than a quarter of the humanitarian aid it needs, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on a visit to Port-au-Prince, urging greater global support for the gang-ravaged nation.
We’ve curated three expert views on what this means for Haiti.
Haiti has suffered a string of crises in recent years, including the assassination of its president in 2021, resulting in instability that gangs have capitalized on to take control of swathes of the country.
In a huge show of force, late last year gangs took control of the country’s largest oil terminal, bringing the economy to a standstill.
The economic slowdown — Haiti’s GDP has fallen each of the past four years — has pushed more than 70,000 to flee this year alone.
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