The Of­fice for the Co­or­di­na­tion of Hu­man­i­tar­i­an Af­fairs in Haiti (OCHA) says gang ac­tiv­i­ties in the French-speak­ing Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) coun­try, con­tin­ue to fu­el vi­o­lence, dis­place fam­i­lies and dis­rupt much-need­ed hu­man­i­tar­i­an op­er­a­tions across mul­ti­ple parts of the coun­try.

Stéphane Du­jar­ric, the spokesman for the UN Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al, An­to­nio Guter­res, told the dai­ly news brief­ing on Tues­day that the In­ter­na­tion­al Or­ga­ni­za­tion for Mi­gra­tion (IOM) not­ed that as of four days ago, more than 200,000 men, women and chil­dren were liv­ing in spon­ta­neous dis­place­ment sites across the coun­try.

He said that these sites have near­ly dou­bled be­tween March and April from 119 to 228 and that the IOM says this is large­ly due to the fact that more peo­ple have been forced to flee fol­low­ing at­tacks in the Cen­tre De­part­ment.