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More than 50,000 people flee Haiti capital due to rampant gang violence

People take cover from gunfire near the National Palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on March 21, 2024. © Ralph Tedy Erol, Reuters

More than 50,000 people were displaced from Port-au-Prince within three weeks last month, fleeing an explosion of gang violence in 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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