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53,000 People Flee Port-au-Prince In Three Weeks Of Gang Violence: UN

A woman passes with her child in front of a mural on a church wall in Port-au-Prince on Good Friday on March 29, 2024 (Credit: AFP)

More than 50,000 people fled Port-au-Prince within three weeks last month as an explosion of gang violence shook the Haitian capital, the United Nations said Tuesday.

Between March 8 and March 27, 53,125 people left the city, according to a report from the UN's International Organization for Migration (IOM), joining the Caribbean nation's 116,000 people already displaced in recent months.

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