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Haitians shelter in sports center as fresh attacks displace nearly 9,000

A man carries an elderly man as they flee their neighbourhood Carrefour Feuilles after gangs took over, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti August 15, 2023. REUTERS/Ralph Tedy Erol/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Aug 26 (Reuters) – Hundreds of people are crammed into small white tents in the courtyard of a sports center in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, drying clothes on the access ramps and washing their children in small, plastic tubs.
Some 8,730 people have been displaced around the heavily populated neighborhood of Carrefour-Feuilles, according to U.N. estimates on Saturday, more than half due to a fresh outbreak of violence two days earlier.
Residents began moving out of the area en masse from Aug. 12, when armed gangs mounted their attacks on the area.
Under-resourced police have struggled to fight off the armed groups which now control large parts of the capital, their turf wars driving a devastating humanitarian crisis that has displaced around 200,000 nationwide.
Ariel Henry, Haiti’s unelected prime minister, called for urgent international security assistance last October.
Though countries were wary of backing Henry and repeating the serious abuses committed by past interventions, Kenyan delegates met with Henry and top police chiefs this week to assess leading such a force.
The motion is eventually expected to go to a U.N. Security Council vote.

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