PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — More than one million Haitians have been displaced on the Caribbean nation over the last year, which has been mainly attributed to soaring gang violence since the assassination of the prime minister in 2022.
According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), an agency operating under to the United Nations, “relentless gang violence” in Port-au-Prince, has triggered not only mass violence, including homicides and sexual assault in the capital of Haiti, but also worsened food security.
The latest figures are three times higher than previously reported; about 315,000 Haitians were internally displaced by gang violence in 2023.
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