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Surge in violence forces more than 53,000 to flee Port-au-Prince in less than 3 weeks nbcnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nbcnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti More than 53,000 people have fled Haiti’s capital in less than three weeks, the vast majority to escape unrelenting gang violence, according to a United Nations report released Tuesday. More than 60 percent are headed to Haiti’s rural southern region, which worries UN officials. “Our humanitarian colleagues emphasized that…
Tens of thousands of children are going hungry in Haiti, warn aid workers, doctors and missionaries with increasing urgency, as the Caribbean nation struggles to find its way out of political deadlock and an epidemic of deadly gang violence.