Half a million refugees in Haiti: "I just want to go home"
Over 600,000 people in Haiti have been forced to flee their homes as a result of the violence in the country. This is stated by the UN Migration Organization according to AFP. Since March this year, the number of refugees has increased by 60 percent.
- I only ask for one thing. I would like to go home, get somewhere to rest. I can't stay here forever, 65-year-old Philomene Dayiti told the news agency.
She is one of more than 800 people who took shelter in a church outside the capital Port-au-Prince after her neighborhood was taken over by violent gangs.
Since the end of June, hundreds of police officers from Kenya have arrived in Haiti to fight the gangs. The church's pastor Meus Lotaire tells the news agency that the situation for many refugees is already acute.
- There are so many people here. It is swarming with people.
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Hundreds of Kenyan police officers land in Haiti
200 Kenyan police have landed in Haiti today, The Nation reports.
The officers are part of an internationally funded effort to break the gangs' control over Haiti and the capital, Port-au-Prince.
- The mission is to win the war against the gangs, says Godfrey Otunge, leader of the Kenyan mission in Haiti, to The Nation.
Already, almost 400 Kenyan police officers are in Haiti, and another 600 are on the way.
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