Tens of thousands have fled Haiti's capital in the last three weeks, UN says
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 on Tuesday.
More than 60 per cent are headed to Haiti’s rural southern region, which worries UN officials.
UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said: “Our humanitarian colleagues emphasised that these departments do not have sufficient infrastructure and host communities do not have sufficient resources to cope with the large number of people fleeing Port-au-Prince.”
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