Waves of violence have displaced more than 15,000 Haitians in just a week amid ongoing looting at the country's main port, according to the latest report from the UN agency for migration, as the Security Council on Monday strongly condemned 'destabilizing' criminal activity by armed gangs ravaging the Caribbean nation.

Council members urged the armed gangs to 'immediately cease their destabilizing actions' and reiterated the call for the 'perpetrators of these abhorrent acts to be brought to justice', according to a statement issued following a closed-door briefing last week by the Secretary-General's Special Representative and Head of the UN Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH).