More than a million Haitians forced from their homes amid gang violence
UN agency says more than half of the displaced people are children, as gang attacks see upswing in Port-au-Prince
More than 1 million people have been forced from their homes in Haiti amid a sharp upswing in gang attacks in the country’s embattled capital, Port-au-Prince, the UN has said.
The UN’s migration agency, the IOM, said that never before had such a large number of Haitians been reported to have been displaced by violence. More than half of those internally displaced people (IDPs) were children who were bearing the brunt of Haiti’s security breakdown. Many had been displaced repeatedly.
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