In 2025, Haiti descended into its darkest chapter yet. Armed violence uprooted over 1.4 million lives – nearly triple the toll of early 2024. As armed groups tightened their grip, cholera swept through weakened communities, claiming 71 lives, while more than 270,000 were
forced back across borders they had fled to escape. With 5.7 million people facing acute food insecurity, the crisis impacted the most vulnerable: nearly 130,000 children under five now suffer from acute malnutrition.Despite the constraints, UNICEF and its partners delivered critical life-saving assistance in 2025, treating more than 60,000 children for severe wasting, supporting the reintegration of
more than 570 children from the armed groups (since January 2024), providing safe water to 178,000 people, providing healthcare to 626,000 people, and enabling access to education for 44,000 children.