Haiti's spiralling crisis: Political instability, hunger and gang violence

The combination of political uncertainty, gang warfare and food insecurity has plunged Haiti into crisis. The UN is now warning that the country is "sliding into a hunger emergency". To talk more about the situation, we're joined from Port-au-Prince by Ulrika Richardson, Deputy Special Representative for the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH).

Continuing gang violence in Haiti has led to a spate of kidnappings. Some 101 Haitians were abducted in the first two weeks of March alone. An American couple was also kidnapped ten days ago. Our FRANCE 24 Observers team took a closer look at this gang violence in a rare report that first ran in November last year. They spoke to victims of kidnappings and stray bullets, using amateur footage to get first-hand accounts from Haitians on the ground.

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