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Heavy shooting broke out again in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince on Saturday. Eyewitnesses reported this to the AFP news agency.
Saturday March 23, 2024 at 9:15 PM
Attacks by “armed bandits” have been reported against the base of the departmental Operation and Intervention Brigade (BOID) in the Fort National district and against the Motorized Intervention Brigade (BIM) in Clercine, in the Port-au-Prince agglomeration.
According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), more than 33,000 people have fled the city and its suburbs in the past two weeks in search of safety from gang violence.
The United Nations is deeply concerned about the humanitarian crisis affecting the poorest country in the Caribbean: around five million people, almost half of the population, face high levels of “acute food insecurity”.
“One in two people is now hungry. Growing hunger is fueling the security crisis plaguing the country. We must take urgent action now,” warned Jean-Martin Bauer, director of the World Food Program (WFP) in Haiti.
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