'Very worried': World Food Program head in Haiti rings alarm bell over nation's food crisis

'Very worried': World Food Program head in Haiti rings alarm bell over nation's food crisis

World Food Programme (WFP) Country Director in Haiti, Jean-Martin Bauer, tells reporters during a video press conference at the United Nations that he is "very worried" following the spiraling crisis of gang violence in the impoverished Caribbean nation.

"I'm ringing the alarm bell because you have this baseline level of hunger that is already very high and this is worsening things even more," he says while speaking from Cap-Haitien.

He adds that he "hopes that there will be an improvement in terms of security" after Haiti's prime minister said early Tuesday that he would step aside: "It is necessary for us to do our jobs and to get the assistance to the population."