More than a million people, over half of them children, are now displaced within Haiti where gang violence continues unabated despite the start of a United Nations-backed security mission last year, U.

The U.N. migration agency says internal displacement within Haiti has tripled over the last year and now surpasses 1 million people.

Officials say more than 5,600 people were reported killed in Haiti last year as a U.N.-backed mission led by Kenya struggles to contain rampant gang violence. The U.N.

Children make up at least half of Haiti’s displaced population, which has tripled within a year, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) says. View on euronews

The number of people internally displaced by gang violence in Haiti has tripled to more than one million, the United Nations' International Organization for Migration (IOM) warned on Tuesday. The situation is particularly dire in the capital,