World News in Brief: Half of Haiti's displaced are children, alarm over low immunisation rates, aid to East Africa

By UN News

Oct 03, 2024 1:35 pm

A breakdown in law and order and a wider humanitarian emergency across Haiti have displaced more than 700,000 people – one in two of them children – the UN migration office, IOM, said on Wednesday.

New data from the International Organization for Migration indicates a 22 per cent spike in the number of people uprooted from their homes since June.

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