Archive for June 4th, 2025

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04/06/2025

Less than 5% of Gaza’s Cropland Area Remains Available for Cultivation

Human Wrongs Watch

By UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)*

Gaza’s agricultural infrastructure continues to deteriorate ‘at alarming rate’

Before the start of the conflict, agriculture accounted for approximately 10 percent of Gaza’s economy. ©FAO/Yousef Alrozzi

Rome, 26 May 2025 – Less than five percent of the Gaza Strip’s cropland area remains available for cultivation, according to the latest geospatial assessment carried out by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations Satellite Centre (UNOSAT), further deteriorating food production capacity and exacerbating  the risk of famine in the area.

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04/06/2025

Haiti: World Food Programme Sounds the Alarm over Humanitarian Situation as Hurricane Season Begins

Human Wrongs Watch

(UN News)* — As the hurricane season gets underway in the Caribbean, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) is sounding the alarm over Haiti’s humanitarian situation. 
 
Displaced families seek refuge in Saint-Marc, Haiti.
© UNICEF/Ralph Tedy Erol | Displaced families seek refuge in Saint-Marc, Haiti.
 
With roughly half the population, 5.7 million people, facing some sort of emergency level of hunger, Haiti is one of five countries in the world with catastrophic levels of hunger.
 
“Despite all the violence, displacement and collapse”, WFP remains in Haiti, Lola Castro, Regional Director in Latin America and the Caribbean, said during a briefing on Tuesday , having recently returned from the country. 

More than one million people in Haiti are displaced due to ongoing gang violence and insecurity.

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04/06/2025

Cameroon: The World’s Most Neglected Displacement Crisis

Human Wrongs Watch

4 June 2025 — Like generations before her, Haoua farmed cattle in the Central African Republic (CAR). But one day, about ten years ago, armed fighters appeared in the village, intent on killing people and animals.

“We didn’t want to leave our herd of oxen, so we were the last to flee,” says Haoua. With her husband and children, she made it across the border to Cameroon.

With her back bent and a broom in her hand, 47-year-old Haoua briskly sweeps away the red soil in the courtyard. Swish, swish. As if every swish were a year that has passed. Swish. The dust of what once was. Swish.

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