Violence escalates across Haiti, UN warns
VIOLENCE in Haiti has escalated and expanded outside the capital, Port-au-Prince, the top United Nations official in the country said on Tuesday.
Gangs have reportedly attacked small boats and kidnapped personnel from cargo shipping companies.
Special representative Maria Isabel Salvador told the UN security council that the situation has worsened in the last three months, with more than 700,000 people now displaced in the country and the political process facing “significant challenges.”
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