53,125 people left the capital between March 8 and March 27, mainly to join the departments of the Great South. Since late February, Haiti's powerful gangs have teamed up to attack police stations, prisons, the airport and the seaport.
The population faces a serious humanitarian crisis, with shortages of food, medicine and other basic necessities. The majority (68%) of the more than 50,000 people who fled the capital were already internally displaced. Some had even already been moved twice, three times, or more.