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Violence in Haiti has displaced 15,000 people in recent days

Violence in Haiti has displaced 15,000 people in recent days, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said at his daily news conference on Tuesday.

Given this situation, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday asked member countries ‘urgent action’ to deploy international police force to Caribbean countryor in the face of rapidly deteriorating security, worsened after the weekend when the government declared a curfew.

Guterres, according to his spokesman, said that the most urgent matter is to secure the necessary funding for the mission, for which several African countries (Benin and Chad) and Caribbean countries (the Bahamas, Jamaica and Antigua and Barbuda) have shown their readiness to do so. to allocate a force to be commanded by Kenya when the necessary funds have been raised.

The UN Security Council has scheduled an extraordinary closed meeting for Wednesday to discuss the Haiti case, in which Haiti’s special representative Maria Isabel Salvador will intervene remotely.

The situation in Haiti has deteriorated to the point that 5.5 million people – half its population – are in need of humanitarian assistance, the spokesman recalled, but the truth is that the UN has only been able to raise 2.5% of the $674 million in emergency aid. They asked for the country, that is, 17 million. (EFE)