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Record number of displaced people in Haiti
The International Organization for Migration is alarmed by the million displaced people, half of whom are children, due to gang warfare.
AFP
Published today at 6:37 p.m.
A man carries a mattress while fleeing armed gang violence in the Poste Marchand neighborhood in Port-au-Prince, December 17, 2024.
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More than a million people are displaced in Haiti due to gang violence, about three times more than a year ago, the UN agency said.International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Tuesday, a UN agency headquartered in Geneva.
“In December 2023, we had recorded around 315,000 people displaced by violence. A year later, this figure has tripled to more than a million people displaced by gang violence in Haiti,” said IOM spokesperson Kennedy Okoth Omondi during a briefing. press.
-The data specifically reveals that more than a million people are displaced, more than half of whom are children.
“This figure is truly worrying,” said the IOM spokesperson, adding that this is the highest number of displacements due to violence ever recorded in Haiti.
“Haiti needs significant humanitarian assistance now to save and protect lives,” IOM Director General Amy Pope said in a statement.
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