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After more than two months of blockages due to violent clashes between armed groups, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has made important progress, delivering truckloads of food to the highly vulnerable neighborhood of Cité Soleil – host to pockets of catastrophic hunger (IPC phase 5) in late 2022 – and also resuming use of the international airport at Port-au-Prince for humanitarian passenger and cargo flights. Despite an exceptionally complex security situation, the U.N. World Food Programme is taking important first steps in getting humanitarian supply chains back online and delivering desperately needed assistance to the most difficult neighborhoods of Port-au-Prince,” said Jean-Martin Bauer, U.N. World Food Programme country director in Haiti. “These improvements need to be extended to the ports in Port-au-Prince, which remain hard-hit by the volatile security situation. Without sustained humanitarian access and the reopening of vital supply routes, people risk slipping even deeper into hunger,” Bauer warned.

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