Tens of thousands of people have fled the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, to escape a surge in gang violence over the past weeks.
UN figures suggest more than 53,000 left the city of 3m between 8-27 March.

The UN is warning that the rural regions to which many have fled are not equipped to deal with such a large influx of displaced people.

Meanwhile, gangs are attacking businesses in the capital, torching pharmacies and vandalising schools.

Haiti's national police succeeded in repelling an attack on the presidential palace on Monday but armed men stormed the nearby State University of Haiti hospital, known by its initials HUEH, to use it as their command centre.

HUEH had closed last month due to the violence and was meant to reopen on Monday.

Haiti's national police succeeded in repelling an attack on the presidential palace on Monday but armed men stormed the nearby State University of Haiti hospital, known by its initials HUEH, to use it as their command centre.

HUEH had closed last month due to the violence and was meant to reopen on Monday.

The damage caused by the gangs is likely to further delay its reopening.

Access to healthcare, which was already severely restricted, has become even more difficult after armed men looted a hospital in the Delmas 18 neighbourhood and the Saint-Martin health centre last week.

Criminal gangs control not only the main port in Port-au-Prince but also many of the city's access roads, making it difficult to transport medical supplies.

While the situation in the capital's hospitals is dire, the UN has warned that the arrival of tens of thousands of displaced people in rural areas poorly equipped to deal with it also poses severe challenges.

Most of those fleeing Port-au-Prince have headed south, to areas which are still ravaged by the 2021 earthquake, which killed more than 2,000 people.

"It should be emphasized that [these] provinces do not have sufficient infrastructure and host communities do not have sufficient resources that can enable them to cope with these massive displacement flows coming from the capital," the UN's International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Tuesday.

While Haiti has been facing a humanitarian crisis for years, the recent surge in violence started at the end of February when Prime Minister Ariel Henry travelled to Kenya to seal a deal for the African nation to lead a multinational security force.

The capital's warring criminal gangs united in an uneasy alliance to oust the prime minister.

Mr Henry was prevented from returning to the country as the gangs attacked the international airport, forcing its closure.

He agreed last month to step aside as soon as transitional presidential council was created.

The council issued its first official statement last week, promising to restore "public and democratic order", but it has yet to take any concrete actions.

Meanwhile, violent attacks in the capital resumed this week after a relative lull over Easter.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLr05WK7cG8

These gangs are so stupid, they want to burn down the entire country

Sigh... This is some next-level humanitarian crisis!

Curiously tho... After these armed imbeciles finish leveling and destroying the nation, what next?!! Where do they go from there?!!


Neighboring and other countries had better sit up, and start securing their borders and entry points.


Haiti is about to become the biggest supplier and conduit for criminalities and terrorism to nations that fail to secure themselves internally and externally.


Nigeria and other parts of Africa are still suffering from the fall of Libya.

God really abandoned that country

This is how APC wants to turn a section of the country into...



EBI M...

Black man; everywhere he dominates is always riddled with chaos, violence, bloodshed, discrimination, cheating, corruption, wickedness, barbarism, backwardness and stupidity


Funny enough, Haiti is made up of mostly runaway black slaves from the Yoruba tribe in Nigeria, they make up the majority of Haitian population

yeah............good morning fam

In times like this, I support invasion

Reasonable countries should invade the country and put some sense into it.

But here's one thing tho: There's a cost of being invaded and also, invading someone's country.

When the country doing the invasion has paid the cost. The country being invaded should not cry or shout exploitation or whatever in the future simply because that's the cost of being invaded.

All is fair.

Hg

God1000:
These gangs are so stupid, they want to burn down the entire country

They are not stupid. Blame your stupid United States for interfering in Haiti polities..

United States always cause trouble wherever they enter..

If US try this rubbish in Nigeria. The youths will be the gang

If I talk say blacks are stvpid and that Nigeria is a zoo nation, they will come for my head.

For what? For sayings the TRUTH

Good.

Wow. Iran, Haiti, CERN , super eclipse, devils comet, black Jesus, senegal44, Taiwan earthquake , It’s all happening

This is not good at all. Some innocent people paying with their lives and properties for the failure of politicians, corrupt government officials and some private wealthy citizens May God in His mercy save these vulnerable people.

And I had plans of going to Haiti for some voodoo.

Time for Nigerian military to show it’s force
Send some soldiers in for peacekeeping 😎

Drugs are a reason for a spike in violence in any country.

If our government pushes us to this extent, the whole world will learn how to oust a government from us

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Our own no go reach this level!

Aameen!

The Gang of Haiti.
A movie of of sorrow and national tragedy.

Smoothwave:


They are not stupid. Blame your stupid United States for interfering in Haiti polities..

United States always cause trouble wherever they enter..

If US try this rubbish in Nigeria. The youths will be the gang

What have you and your youth done to stop the the various issues facing Nigeria authored by different gangs? Or what have you and your youth done to stop US from interfering in Nigeria's politics?

motionarena:
God really abandoned that country

This your humanized god sef.

Let's not forget that the Genesis of this crisis was a woman who betrayed her husband! Fear w....

SAY NO TO GANGSTAR. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

Smoothwave:


They are not stupid. Blame your stupid United States for interfering in Haiti polities..

United States always cause trouble wherever they enter..

If US try this rubbish in Nigeria. The youths will be the gang

It's a lie, it's not the US.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAIq-W8SszU?si=GNU5kYTMfu0xv5xV


Educate yourself.

God1000:


https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-68722178



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLr05WK7cG8

Consequences of too much Voodoo among people, very soon it will reach some cursed land in Nigeria.

franchasofficia:
Black man; everywhere he dominates is always riddled with chaos, violence, bloodshed, discrimination, cheating, corruption, wickedness, barbarism, backwardness and stupidity


Funny enough, Haiti is made up of mostly runaway black slaves from the Yoruba tribe in Nigeria, they make up the majority of Haitian population

I knew a PIG like you would come along and inject his racial inferiority complex into the discussion.

Dunce. Are you aware of the numerous PEACEFUL, PROGRESSIVE, AND FAST DEVELOPING BLACK nations around Haiti?

Namely,

Barbados

Guyana

Trinidad and Tobago

Jamaica

Antigua

Suriname

St. Vincent and the Grenadines

St. Lucia

St. Kitts

Grenada

The Bahamas

All beautiful BLACK nations you know NOTHING about because the western media has brainwashed you with HAITI.