MADRID 4 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) –
At least 10,867 people are displaced after the latest armed attacks against the neighborhoods of Poste Marchand and its surroundings, according to the latest report published by the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
“The vast majority of these people (95%) have taken refuge in 18 sites, including four newly created and 14 that already existed before these incidents,” the IOM has indicated in a report. The rest, 5 percent, are in foster family homes.
The document thus warns that “the number of internally displaced persons received has increased considerably” and highlights that the violence has caused the eviction of three of the reception centers.
On the other hand, it has been reported that 75 more soldiers from Guatemala and El Salvador have been deployed to reinforce the deployment of international forces in the country, the Multinational Security Support Mission in Haiti (MMASH), in which police officers participate. Kenyans.
The Central American soldiers have arrived in Haiti on a US military plane that landed at the Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince in an event attended by the acting president of the Haitian Transition Council, Leslie Voltaire; the Prime Minister, Alix Didier Fils-Aimé, the American Ambassador, Denis Hankins; or the commander of the MMASH, the Kenyan Godfrey Otunge. After this shipment, Guatemala has 150 troops.
The UN mission has recorded more than 5,350 deaths and more than 2,155 injuries as a direct consequence of acts of violence carried out by criminal gangs in the year 2024 alone.