According to the United Nations migration agency, a surge in gang violence in Port-au-Prince this month caused almost 40,000 people to flee their homes in only ten days.
40,965 individuals in Port-au-Prince were displaced between November 11 and 20, some for the second or third time, in what the International Organization for Migration called the biggest displacement wave in two years.
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The head of IOM in Haiti, Gregoire Goodstein, stated in a recent release, “The scale of this displacement is unprecedented since we began responding to the humanitarian crisis in 2022.”
“Viv Ansanm” (“Living Together”), a coalition of gangs established in February to topple then-Prime Minister Ariel Henry, who resigned in April, has been involved in violent battles involving various neighborhoods of Port-au-Prince and the neighboring parts over the previous two weeks.
The organization stated that more than 700,000 people had been displaced in Haiti overall.
Goodstein remarked, “This crisis is not just a humanitarian challenge. It is a test of our collective responsibility.”
Political unrest has plagued Haiti for many years, and the most recent security problem has been connected to the existence of armed gangs that are suspected of widespread sexual assault, kidnapping, and murder.
