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More than 20,000 displaced in the capital in four days
The IOM said Saturday that more than 20,000 people have been displaced in four days in the Haitian capital.
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Published today at 5:39 a.m. Updated 7 minutes ago
Residents evacuate their neighborhood in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, November 14, 2024.
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More than 20,000 people have been displaced in four days in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, forced to flee because of the dire humanitarian situation and gang violence, the International Organization for Migration said Saturday ( IOM).
“Such a scale of displacement has not been observed since August 2023,” noted the UN agency in a press release published on Saturday.
The IOM said that around 17,000 of the approximately 20,000 displaced people were already in temporary accommodation.
“An already disastrous humanitarian situation”
Haiti, already the poorest country in the region, has long suffered from violence by criminal gangs. These gangs are accused of numerous murders, rapes, looting and kidnappings for ransom.
Since Tuesday, the American civil aviation regulator (FAA) has banned American companies from serving the country after shootings against three planes the day before. The UN also suspended its humanitarian flights to Port-au-Prince and redirected them to Cap Haitien airport in the north of the country.
“The isolation of Port-au-Prince amplifies an already disastrous humanitarian situation,” Grégoire Goodstein, IOM Haiti official, said in a statement.
“Our ability to provide aid is reaching its limits”
“Our ability to provide aid is reaching its limits. Without immediate international support, the suffering will worsen exponentially,” he warned.
Since Monday, Port-au-Prince has been facing a new outbreak of violence in a context of political crisis marked by the dismissal of Prime Minister Garry Conille by the Presidential Transitional Council, and his replacement by businessman Alix Didier Son-Aimé.
The latter, invested on Monday, promised to restore security and organize the first elections in Haiti since 2016. He has since led consultations to form his ministerial cabinet.
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