P-au-P., February 13, 2024 [AlterPresse] — 2,686 people, or 629 households, were forced to move in the communes of Carrefour (south of the capital, Port-au-Prince), Cité Soleil (north) and Tabarre (north-east), with the attacks of armed gangs, perpetrated from Monday February 5 to Sunday February 11, 2024, counted the International Organization for Migration (Oim), in a bulletin noted by the online agency AlterPresse.
Several neighborhoods in the aforementioned municipalities have begun, since February 5, 2024, to suffer attacks from armed gangs.
1,819 displaced people were counted following attacks in the commune of Carrefour and 867 following those in neighborhoods bordering the communes of Cité Soleil and Tabarre, specifies the IOM.
The majority of displaced people, 94%, took refuge with host families and 6% in two sites.
100 displaced people came to settle in Place Clercine, in the commune of Tabarre, which already existed before these incidents, increasing the number to 480 people.
In fact, 380 people were already accommodated on Place Clercine.
Furthermore, 54 people took refuge in a newly created site at the Ramoth de Marin school in the commune of Croix-Des-Bouquets, reports the IOM.
Armed clashes have broken out for several days between rival gangs, in the Cul-de-Sac plain, in the Terre Noire and Blanchard areas, in the commune of Cité Soleil (north of the capital, Port-au-Prince). .
Several cane fields totaling 8 hectares were burnedforcing the Société du Rhum Barbancourt SA to suspend its public activities.
This fire did not affect Rhum Barbancourt SA production, reassures the Rhum Barbancourt SA company, in a note dated Sunday February 11, 2024.
It claims to have announced, as a precaution, the suspension of its public activities for the benefit of neighboring communities, including, among other things, the distribution of free treated water, the free medical care center, the use of playgrounds, fields football and basketball.
The residents of Rivière Froide, 11th municipal section of Carrefour, have been forced, in recent days, to abandon their homes because of violent attacks by armed gangs in the area.
Previously, several thousand families in the neighborhoods of Solino (downtown Port-au-Prince), Carrefour-Feuilles (southeast suburbs), Mariani (south) fled their homes, with attacks from armed gangs trying to expand their territories.
Acts of brutality were found to be increased in more than half of the waves of forced displacement of more than 310,000 people in 2023 in Haitinoted the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in an assessment of internal displacement.
Most of those displaced by the terror of armed gangs in Haiti in 2023 are women and children, the IOM reported.
Over the course of 2023, more than 8,400 people have been killed, injured and/or kidnappedunderlined the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (Binuh).
There has been systematic sexual violence by armed gangs on national territory.
“The multiple protracted crises have reached a critical stage in Haiti,” indicated the special representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations (UN) and head of the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (Binuh), the Ecuadorian María Isabel Salvador, during an information session on Haiti, Thursday, January 25, 2024, at the Security Council of the United Nations (UN).
More than 5,000 people killed in armed gang violence ravaging Haitisaid the Secretary General of the United Nations, the Portuguese Antonio Guterres, in a report published on Tuesday January 23, 2024. [emb rc apr 13/02/2024 10:50]
Photo: International Organization for Migration (IOM)
