A new report has found that nearly six million people in Haiti are experiencing severe hunger, with almost two million facing emergency conditions, according to an ABC News wire report.
The ABC News summary gives both figures but does not say whether the almost two million people are part of the nearly six million, or a separate group. It also does not explain how the two figures were reached.
The headline of the ABC News report says hunger in Haiti is surging as gang violence, high food prices and a "supercharged El Niño" persist. The summary does not explain how those three conditions relate to the level of hunger, or which of them, if any, carries the most weight.
The ABC News summary does not name the organization that produced the new report. It also does not state the period the figures cover, define what the report means by "emergency conditions," or say whether the numbers represent an increase over earlier estimates, although the headline uses the word "surges."
Gang violence, high food prices and El Niño each appear in the ABC News material only in the headline. The summary does not describe their effects on food supplies or on particular groups of people, so this account cannot report those effects beyond the headline's wording.
The ABC News report was distributed as a wire story, and no author is listed in the material available for this account. Further findings, if any, would appear in the full ABC News report, which was not available for this account.