Report: Surging gang violence in Haiti has displaced over 1 million people

GENEVA —  Gang violence in Haiti has displaced more than a million people, including children, who make up more than half of the displaced population and “bear the greatest burden of displacement,” according to a report released Tuesday by the International Organization for Migration. “It is important to note that at this moment, Haiti is facing the largest number of internal displacements as a result of the gang violence ever [recorded] in history,” IOM spokesman Kennedy Okoth Omondi told journalists at a briefing Tuesday in Geneva. “In December 2023, we recorded around 315,000 people who were displaced from the violence.

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