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BBC OS: 2024/03/18 17:06 GMT: Haiti unrest causing record hunger

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Haiti unrest causing record hunger

2024/03/18 17:06 GMT

2024/03/18 17:06 GMT: Haiti unrest causing record hunger

BBC World Service - BBC OS, Haiti unrest causing record hunger

UNICEF blames ongoing chaos for life-threatening malnutrition in Port-au-Prince.

Haiti continues to face its biggest humanitarian emergency in many years as weeks of coordinated gang attacks on key facilities in the capital Port- Au- Prince continue. The country's Prime Minister was forced to resign last week. In London, co-presenter Joe Inwood will hear from a resident and an independent correspondent in the suburbs  

Israel says it now controls the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, after launching an overnight raid. Meanwhile, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees says famine is "imminent" in the northern Gaza Strip. We hear from a woman who's teenage son was hospitalised following last night's raid on the Al Shifa health facility. 

In Jerusalem, presenter Anna Foster speaks to the relative of an Israeli hostage who remains in Hamas captivity. 


And we’ll look at what is expected from President Putin’s fifth term after he vowed to press on with the invasion of Ukraine. 
 
Presenters: Anna Foster and Joe Inwood

(Photo: Twelve bodies found in the Haitian capital amid a spiral of violence, Port Au Prince, Haiti - 18 Mar 2024. Credit: JOHNSON SABIN/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)

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