UN: Haiti Displacement Tops 1.49 Million as Crisis Spreads to Rural Areas

The number of people displaced across Haiti rose to 1.49 million in August 2026, up from 1.47 million in April, as the humanitarian crisis spread into rural areas and provincial towns, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). The figures appear in OCHA's Nationwide Response Situation Report No. 3, dated 30 September 2026. In the Artibonite region, insecurity has forced the closure of 21 health facilities, leaving an estimated 335,000 people without adequate access to health care, the report said. OCHA also warned of deepening malnutrition, projecting that 253,725 children aged 6 to 59 months are at risk of acute malnutrition by May 2027. The national prevalence of global acute malnutrition rose from 5.1 per cent in 2023 to 7.4 per cent in 2026, according to the report. Despite the mounting needs, humanitarian health partners conducted 74,614 medical consultations through 120 mobile clinic deployments, OCHA said. The agency's situation report outlines the scale of displacement and service disruption but does not, in these excerpts, detail funding levels or specific response gaps.