IOM records 22% increase in people displaced in Haiti …C0NTINUE READING HERE >>>
A breakdown in law and order and a wider humanitarian emergency across Haiti have displaced more than 700,000 people – one in two of them children, the UN migration office, IOM has said.
New data from the International Organisation for Migration, on Wednesday indicates, a 22 per cent spike in the number of people uprooted from their homes since June.
IOM said that gang violence had forced more than 110,000 people to flee their homes in the last seven months, particularly in Gressier, which lies west of the capital.
Grégoire Goodstein, IOM’s chief in Haiti, said that the sharp…
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