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Number of internally displaced people in Haiti passes 1 million, says UN
Haitian migrants who hope to apply for asylum in the U.S. wait to register their names on a list made by a religious organization in Reynosa, Mexico, Dec. 21, 2022, on the other side of the border with McAllen, Texas
THE number of internally displaced people in Haiti has tripled over the last year and now exceeds one million, a record in the Caribbean nation, the United Nations migration agency has said.
The International Organisation for Migration said on Tuesday that “relentless gang violence” in the capital Port-au-Prince has fuelled a near-doubling of displacement there and a collapse of healthcare and other services, plus worsening food insecurity.
Haiti is one of the poorest countries in the world.
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