Tens of thousands of Haitians left Port-au-Prince after days of violence. In the space of two weeks, more than 33,000 people have fled the metropolitan area.
Attacks and generalized insecurity are pushing more and more people to leave the capital to find refuge in the provinces, says the International Organization for Migration. Many of the people who fled the capital were already internally displaced, sometimes multiple times, the IOM says. The departments of the Great South are already welcoming 116,000 displaced people who have fled in recent months.