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Drought worsens food crisis in poverty-stricken Haiti
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/04/drought-worsens-food-crisis-in-poverty-stricken-haiti/
Drought worsens food crisis in poverty-stricken Haiti
By Agence France-Presse
Friday, April 4, 2014 17:07 EDT
The World Food Program sounded an alarm Friday over arid conditions in northwest Haiti that have worsened an already dire food shortage in this impoverished country.
“The situation is worrying,” said Peter de Clercq, an official at the United Nations, which runs the international food aid agency.
The Caribbean country “desperately needs food and nutritional assistance,” said de Clercq, deputy special representative for the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH).
The UN official, who just completed an overflight of the drought-stricken region via helicopter, said the WFP already has provided food aid to tens of thousands of inhabitants of northwestern Haiti.