The Unit­ed Na­tions warns that a lack of fund­ing is con­tin­u­ing to ham­per its hu­man­i­tar­i­an ac­tiv­i­ties in hotspots around the world, and es­pe­cial­ly in the Caribbean coun­try, Haiti, where thou­sands con­tin­ue to be dis­placed by un­re­lent­ing gang vi­o­lence, and some six mil­lion peo­ple des­per­ate­ly need hu­man­i­tar­i­an as­sis­tance.

Speak­ing at a news brief­ing to­day, Spokesper­son for the Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al, Stéphane Du­jar­ric, re­port­ed that “armed at­tacks in the Cen­tre de­part­ment last week dis­placed more than 16,000 hu­man be­ings”, based on in­for­ma­tion pro­vid­ed by the Of­fice for the Co­or­di­na­tion of Hu­man­i­tar­i­an Af­fairs (OCHA).

“Most have found refuge with host fam­i­lies, while 2 per cent of them have set­tled in sev­en in­for­mal dis­place­ment sites that were cre­at­ed in the wake of these in­ci­dents,” she re­vealed, not­ing that the se­cu­ri­ty sit­u­a­tion in Haiti con­tin­ues to de­te­ri­o­rate.