UNITED NATIONS, (CMC)) – The United Nations Tuesday said that the humanitarian situation continues to deteriorate in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area, particularly in the neighbourhood of Cité Soleil, following an escalation of armed violence in Haiti earlier this month.

Deputy UN spokesman, Farhan Haq, told the daily news briefing that the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is “coordinating the effort to ensure we can reach people in need more effectively”.

He said that according to new estimates by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), an estimated 17,500 people, or more than 4,200 households, have been displaced in the past two weeks.