More than sixty thousand people were forced to leave their homes in the Haitian capital, Port-O-Prenz, “in a siege state” due to a new rise in gangs that are ganging the country, the UN service for immigrants said Tuesday. “This alarming increase in displacements underlines the cycle of violence that sweeps the capital of Haiti, we had never noticed such a high number of displaced in such a short time,” commented Greguar Gudstein, the head of the international immigration organization. The IMU explained to the French Agency that it recorded two distinct waves of mass displacements: 42,000 inhabitants between February 14 and March 5, after 23,000 more between 11 and 17 March. This is a “record” since the Agency has launched a detailed displacement monitoring system in the capital in 2023. The number of internal displaced in Haiti has now exceeded a million, it is three times more compared to one year earlier. ‘Families uprooted again and […]
Source: News Beast
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