More than one million people are internally displaced in Haiti, according to figures released by the International Organization for Migration (IOM). teleSUR
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00:00Haiti is facing one of the most serious displacement crises in its recent history.
00:04According to the International Organization for Migration, more than one million people
00:09left their homes in 2024. The United Nations organization identifies the wave of violence
00:15imposed by criminal groups as the root cause. Port-au-Prince, the capital of the country,
00:20is one of the cities most affected by the phenomenon, given that over 80% of the city
00:26is controlled by the coalition of criminal groups living together.
00:30According to Kennedy Akoth, the spokesperson for the IOM, the numbers will have tripled when
00:37compared to 2023, especially in the capital, where displacement has increased by 87%.
00:44In December 2023, we did record around 315,000 people who were displaced from the violence.
00:57One year since then, we have seen the number tripled to over a million people who have now
01:03been displaced because of gang violence in Haiti. This is a really troubling number,
01:10and it represents the security situation that most Haitians are currently facing.