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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
World
Tom Phillips Latin America correspondent

More than a million Haitians forced from their homes amid gang violence

A man carrying his belongings
A man carries his belongings past the wreckages of vehicles burnt over the weekend by armed gangs in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on 9 December 2024 Photograph: Ralph Tedy Erol/Reuters

More than 1 million people have been forced from their homes in Haiti amid a sharp upswing in gang attacks in the country’s embattled capital, Port-au-Prince, the UN has said.

The UN’s migration agency, the IOM, said that never before had such a large number of Haitians been reported to have been displaced by violence. More than half of those internally displaced people (IDPs) were children who were bearing the brunt of Haiti’s security breakdown. Many had been displaced repeatedly.

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