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Cause : haiti is poorest country in the west

effect: the fuel has been causing gas prices to go up

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Cause: The gang kidnapped a group of Americans missionaries in broad daylight near the capital of Port-Au-Prince on Oct 16 and has threaten to kill them if ransom isn't paid. Kidnapping has become a regular occurrence in Haiti, the country with the world's highest per capital kidnapping rate.

Effect: gangs blocking Haiti's ports, choking off fuel shipments. Hospitals on the verge of shutting down as generators run dry, risking the lives of hundreds of children. Cellphone towers going without power, leaving swaths of the country isolated. And An acute hunger crisis growing more severe each day.

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Cause: political instability that resulted in the assassination of President Jovenel Moise, and most recently there was an earthquake in august 2021. Also they are the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. They are out of fuel , & There is kidnapping going on that is related to gangs.

Effect: People are trying to clean the country up, people are hurt, gangs are demanding 17 million dollars for the people to be released. people aren't able to work the business are out of money so they are having difficulties providing for the employees and customers/patients

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Unfortunately, conditions in Haiti have not improved over the last two years with COVID-19, additional lockdowns, political instability that resulted in the assassination of President Jovenel Moise, and, most recently, the August 2021 earthquake. Many Haitians are still facing repercussions from Hurricanes Tomas (2010) and Matthew (2016), the last major earthquake in 2010, and a severe drought that has further compromised the island nation's water resources. There's more to unpack in a situation that has gone largely ignored over the last few years. Here are 5 things to know about the Haiti crisis in 2021.

1. Haiti has the highest hunger rates in the Western Hemisphere - and it's getting worse

In an earlier version of this article written in 2019, we noted that 35% of Haiti's population, some 3.7 million people, were going hungry. That year, Integrated Phase Classification (IPC) reports estimated that the number could rise to 4 million by March of 2020 - and that was before the food insecurity impacts of COVID-19.

Haiti has now surpassed that number, and as of the beginning of 2021, 4.4 million Haitians suffered from food insecurity. While this can be attributed in part to the conflict and social unrest of 2019, that wasn't the only factor: The effects of climate change , exacerbated by winds in the first half of 2019, contributed to a drought that reduced harvests by 12%. Meanwhile, food prices have risen by as much as 30% year-over-year due to inflation. A recent World Food Programme report estimated that a working person in Haiti paid 35% of their income on one meal, which would be like someone in New York paying $74 for lunch.

Among those hit hardest by hunger are Haitians living in rural areas - which are often harder to reach - and Haitians living in low-income urban districts, such as Cité Soleil in Port-au-Prince.

2. Inter-generational poverty isn't just family-to-family here

After nearly 13 years of conflict, Haiti gained its independence from France in 1804. Prior to that, the country formerly known as Saint-Domingue spent three centuries as a French slave colony where the average life expectancy of its enslaved peoples was just 21 years. The price of freedom, however, was steep: With the country's plantations and infrastructure all but destroyed in the revolution, Haiti was also required to pay reparations to France in exchange for diplomatic recognition: 150 million gold francs, which France later reduced to 90 million (the equivalent today to nearly $20 billion).

Haiti paid these reparations to France from 1825 to 1947, taking out high-interest loans from American, German, and French banks to cover the cost (approximately 80% of its national budget each year). This cycle of debt put Haiti in a vulnerable context with regards to politics and leadership, and left everyday Haitians shouldering much of the financial burdens, passing on poverty from one generation to the next.

A minority of the population has benefitted from the creation of wealth, Concern Haiti country director Kwanli Kladstrup explained in 2019, "however the majority of Haiti - especially young people - continue to be marginalized, feel disenfranchised with no education or economic prospects, and live in poor conditions with limited access to basic social services and economic opportunity."

3. Many Haitians are still recovering from the 2010 earthquake

On January 12, 2010, the area around Port-au-Prince was at the epicenter of a magnitude-7 earthquake; one of the world's largest natural disasters on record. The scale of the earthquake was unprecedented in an urban setting, and killed over 200,000 people. It also displaced 1.5 million, destroyed 250,000 homes, and 30,000 commercial buildings.

Many families are still living in informal settlements as they rebuild their lives, following an initially large international response towards recovery that many commissions and organizations abandoned early on in the process. In recent years, funding and access have both been major issues for organizations like Concern, which are committed to long-term change and recovery. In 2019, the United Nations reported only meeting 30% of its funding goals for Haiti as many donors have fallen behind on financial commitments in the face of political insecurity.

While the 2021 earthquake's epicenter was further west from Port-au-Prince (which felt the quake but sustained no major damage), the humanitarian and financial repercussions will be felt throughout the country (whose population is only slightly higher than that of New York City's).

4. COVID hasn't been the country's biggest public health crisis

Cases of COVID-19 have been comparatively low in Haiti: As of August 15, 2021, the country had registered 20,507 cases and 576 deaths (over 14,000 vaccines had been at least partially administered by this time as well). However, that hasn't resulted in a clean bill for the country's public health system in recent years.

The 2010 earthquake led to a cholera outbreak in Haiti that began in October of that year, due largely to the destroyed infrastructure that limited access to clean water. The country's cholera cases peaked in 2011, with over 350,000 people exhibiting symptoms. By the end of 2018, nearly 10% of the country's population had contracted cholera at some point, and 9,700 died. Access to clean water remains an issue in Haiti, with approximately two thirds of Haitians lacking access to basic sanitation.

5. There's a chance to prevent future violence

The contributing factors to Haiti's crisis also contribute to a rise in the country's levels of extreme poverty. This in turn creates a vicious cycle of dissatisfaction, deprivation, and desperation, and violence that is borne out of this frustration but, ultimately, only exacerbates the situation.

While getting urgent help to those who need it most is at the top of most humanitarian agendas, the larger picture reveals that we need to make greater policy changes towards climate response, resilience, and climate justice, while also helping Haitians develop more sustainable livelihoods, stronger infrastructure, and greater opportunities for education.

As Kwanli Kladstrup, Concern's Haiti Country Director, notes:

"Prevention of future violence, and sustained support for the most vulnerable - especially children - should be our guiding principles to ensure the next generation does not pursue violence as its only option. The potentially violent actors of tomorrow are the children of today. Therefore, it is most important that their rights to education, good health, and protection are fulfilled; and right now that is just not happening."

Concern in Haiti

Concern has worked in Haiti since 1994, when we responded to Hurricane Gordon. We've been involved in emergency response ever since, including those to the 2010 earthquake, Hurricane Tomas, and Hurricane Matthew. Some of our key activities include:

Youth training with young leaders to encourage the next generation of Haitians to use peaceful dialogue and debate in lieu of violence

Urban child protection encouraging communities to understand the consequences of violence against children, targeting 500 extremely poor households

Emergency response including the 2018 floods caused by heavy rains, natural disasters, and climate change

Life skills provided to 400 of the most vulnerable members of the community so that they may increase their income and support their families

Concern works in Cité Soleil, one of the most vulnerable slum areas of Port-au-Prince, which is also being hit hard by violence and exposure to numerous hazards, all of which puts more children at risk. Our project "Timoun djanm Jodi, sosyete djanm demen" ("Children standing tall today for a strong society tomorrow") aims to transform the futures of children in extreme poverty by focusing on children, their families, and the community at large.

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Unfortunately, conditions in Haiti have not improved over the last two years with COVID-19, additional lockdowns, political instability that resulted in the assassination of President Jovenel Moise, and, most recently, the August 2021 earthquake. Many Haitians are still facing repercussions from Hurricanes Tomas (2010) and Matthew (2016), the last major earthquake in 2010, and a severe drought that has further compromised the island nation's water resources.

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Nathan Moss

Cause: While weather related problems are going on in America, Northern California  is flooded due to a atmospheric river and its bringing heavy rain gusting winds.
Effect: On State route 70, the hillside came crashing down due to the weather. The debris is so huge, heavy equipment can't move it right now.

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Cause: Hospital Universitaire de la Paix runs primarily on generators, which in turn run on gasoline.

Effect: The lack of fuel and the threat of violence are keeping the rest of the hospital's staff at home, unwilling or unable to come to work.The hospital has essentially stopped functioning

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Cause:The nation of Haiti is the poorest country in the western.

Effect:The lack of fuel has caused gas prices to go up in the U.S and hospitals has no gas or electricity to care for patients.

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Cause:In Haiti they are running out of fuel for electricity to there buildings and factories.

Effect:A crushing shortage of gasoline has crippled Haiti, one of the largest medical care facilities in the Haitian capital does not have enough electricity to properly treat its patients.

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Cause: There is a lack of fuel and high gang violence in the country of Haiti.

Effect: The lack of fuel has causes businesses, hospitals, and factories to shut down due to a lack of electricity. The gangs control the highway and most workers refuse and can't drive and get to work.

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Cause: Haiti is running out of fuel and the government is sometimes too broke to pay for fuel or almost anything else since the nation is 60% under the poverty line.

Effect: Not only is the nation to poor and poverty is low but the local gang controls the roads leading to the ports causing fuel to not go where it needs to be like the stores or gas stations putting the country in a chaotic state making it dangerous and very hectic to any foreigners traveling that way.

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cause: nation Haiti is very poor and is in a very bad state

effect: the country has a very bad fuel shortage that is making the country close to its breaking point

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Effect: is that  U..S. officials are working with Haitian authorities to try to secure the release of the christians Amid the spike in kidnappings, gangs have demanded ransoms ranging from a couple of hundred dollars to more than $1 million, sometimes killing those they have abducted, according to authorities.

Cause: is The leader of the gang that kidnapped 17 US and Canadian missionaries in Haiti has threatened to kill them if he doesn't get what he wants,12 adults and five children with a U.S.-based missionary group who were abducted over the weekend by a gang notorious for killings, kidnappings and extortion.

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Port-au-Prince, Haiti - Desperate efforts continued on Tuesday to save a group of missionaries, most of them Americans, being held for ransom by a criminal gang in Haiti. FBI agents were working with local authorities in the tiny Caribbean nation to find the 16 U.S. nationals and one Canadian who were kidnapped on Saturday.

The gang was asking for $1 million for each hostage - $17 million total - to release the missionaries, a high-ranking government source confirmed to CBS News. The dollar amount was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.

The missionaries, from an Ohio-based Christian organization, were abducted just outside the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince. CBS News' Manuel Bojorquez and his team in the city were able to obtain a phone number for the leader of the "400 Mawozo" gang, which authorities believe is behind the kidnappings. CBS News dialed the number and a man picked up, but he hung up after hearing who was on the other end of the line.

On Monday, Haitians took to the streets of Port-au-Prince to protest over the multiple crises facing their nation, including a surge in violent kidnappings, a deadly earthquake and the assassination of their president over the summer.

There is so much frustration in the country that Haitians come out pretty much every day to protest the dire political and economic situation, where overwhelming poverty has created a fertile breeding ground for criminal gangs like 400 Mawozo. There are simply far too many young men without jobs who can be easily recruited.

A family of five from Oceana, Michigan, are among the Americans being held by the kidnappers.

"To have it hit that close to home is extremely heartbreaking, but what about the other families?" Todd Dueling, the pastor at a local church in Oceana, told CBS News.

Bojorquez met Linda, who works with Haitian children in Port-au-Prince. She asked that her last name not be mentioned for fear of retaliation. Linda said the children she works with offer a special prayer before leaving their homes: "'Please pray that we will be invisible... so that when we walk the streets, we won't be taken.' And yet they are."

FBI tactical teams were assisting as Haitian authorities try to negotiate the missionaries' safe return.

"You're trying to do two things at the same time - maintain open lines of communication, and prepare for the worst," James Gagliano, a former special agent with the FBI's hostage rescue team, told CBS News about what was likely going on behind the scenes.

Gagliano said that if it became clear the gang was killing or threatening to kill hostages, the U.S. law enforcement agency would likely have a strike team on hand to attempt a rescue operation.

To underscore the extent to which nationwide poverty is at the root of not only this hostage taking, but the plague of abductions in Haiti, Linda told CBS News that the No. 1 thing gangs have asked her organization for during previous negotiations is food.

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Port-au-Prince, Haiti - Desperate efforts continued on Tuesday to save a group of missionaries, most of them Americans, being held for ransom by a criminal gang in Haiti. FBI agents were working with local authorities in the tiny Caribbean nation to find the 16 U.S. nationals and one Canadian who were kidnapped on Saturday.

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Cause: Haiti government cant afford fuel and they cant delivered it. Most of the fuel is imported in Carrefour and Varreux, but gang in port-au-prince are so powerful you are most likely to get kill or kidnap if you try to transport gas from Carrefour and Varreux.

Effect: In port-au-prince the electricity grind is not reliable, so most small stores generator and need gas to work. If the gas is not being delivered and are going up in price then things like cold drink and food are going up in price.

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The Haiti government does not have the money to pay for the cost of fuel causing many problems for the citizens. Since the government can't pay for the fuel there is now a shortage so the prices have risen exponentially. The lack of fuel has hit hospitals, business, factories, and the people of the country. Now people are rallying in the streets for change.

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Wallace Rutledge

Cause: Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere and the more than 40% of the workforce is unemployed.

Effect: widespread corruption can lead to factors that inhibit national succession such as: lower economic growth rates, the lackluster of the program, lower welfare spending, and unequal access to education.

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Cause: The nation of Haiti is running out of fuel.

Effect: One of the largest care facilities in the nations's capital doesn't have enough electricity to properly treat its patients and it doesn't have enough gas to run its backup generator.

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Cause: There has been a severe scarcity of gasoline. They've been whining about how they need to drive somewhere but don't have any petrol. Then their government is broke or in need of money, which is also a legitimate cause.

Effect: The only way they'll obtain gas is if it's brought from Carrefour to Varreux, which won't happen since the gangs in the region won't allow the deliverers through. If he or they attempt, they will either be shot, abducted, or have to pay a big sum of money simply to obtain gas to their facility.

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Amiyah Austin

Cause:  In Haiti the lack of fuel and the threat of violence are keeping the rest of the hospital's staff at home, unwilling or unable to come to work.

Effect:  As a result the hospital has essentially stopped functioning as a result.

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Cause: The nation of Haiti is impoverished and going through a crisis.
Effect: The country is facing a severe fuel shortage that is pushing it to the brink of a collapse.

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Due to most of the nation being in poverty and the militia restricting imports of gas, Haiti residents has little to no fuel.

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