More than 40,000 people have been displaced in ten days in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, due to a new outbreak of gang violence, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Monday, November 25, describing the worst wave of displacements. in two years.
Between November 11 and 20, 40,965 people were displaced in the Port-au-Prince metropolis due to this violence and some were forced to flee for a second or even third time, the UN agency said.
A new outbreak of violence
“The scale of these displacements is unprecedented since the beginning of our response to the humanitarian crisis in Haiti in 2022,” said Grégoire Goodstein, IOM head for Haiti, in a press release.
In total, more than 700,000 people are displaced in this poor Caribbean country. “This crisis is not only a humanitarian challenge. It is proof of our collective responsibility,” insisted Grégoire Goodstein, underlining the difficulty of UN teams in carrying out their mission in these insecure conditions.
Haiti has suffered for decades from chronic political instability and a security crisis linked to the presence of armed gangs accused of large-scale murders, kidnappings and sexual violence. For two weeks, Port-au-Prince and neighboring communities have been facing a new outbreak of violence fueled by “Viv Ansanm” (Living Together), an alliance of gangs formed in February that managed to overthrow the then Prime Minister, Ariel. .
Source: BFM TV
