While foreigners ensure their exit from Haiti, residents carry out their own internal exodus and, in just seven days, 16,947 people left the metropolitan area of the capital, Port-au-Prince, to seek refuge in other provinces.
According to data from the International Organization for Migration (IOM), this flow took place between March 8 and 14.
“Attacks and widespread insecurity are causing more and more people to abandon the capital in search of refuge in the provinces, taking the risk of passing through routes controlled by gangs,” detailed the report published on March 15, which collected data on most used bus stations in the city.
According to the document, most of the people displaced due to the escalation of violence were transported to the Grand Sud area, which includes Grande'Anse, Sur, Nippes and Southeast. It also highlights that this region was already home to more than 116 thousand people who fled in recent months.
Also according to the IOM, 83% of the almost 17,000 people displaced in one week were evacuated due to violence and insecurity in a city controlled by gangs, who have already cut off the supply of food, fuel and water.
Of the total number of people who left Port-au-Prince, 52% made the trip with family members, more than half of these family members were minors; 86% of them are heads of families and 76% are not fleeing for the first time. More than half don't know how long they will be away.
*with information from Heather Law, from CNN
Source: CNN Brasil
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