30,000 people flee fresh violence in Haiti as hunger crisis deepens

Key points

• Much of the violence has been concentrated in Cité Soleil, an impoverished neighbourhood in the capital, where humanitarian workers are now seeking to provide life-saving assistance.
• ©WFP/Odelyn Joseph The Caribbean island nation continues to suffer from years of insecurity and deep-rooted poverty as well as a collapsing economy and political turmoil following a presidential assassination.
• Here’s what two women who fled the violence told the UN World Food Programme (WFP).
• Anidette Saint Fleur, from Quartier Blanchard (Cité Soleil) “There was shooting everywhere.
• Then they set a fire very close by and we ran away with the whole family.