2024-07-19 15:08:49
At least 40 migrants died and several others were injured after the boat they were traveling in caught fire off the coast of Cap Haitien, in northern Haiti, reported last Friday the International Organization for Migration (IOM) it is a statement.
The ship, carrying more than 80 people, left Labadee on Wednesday bound for the Turks and Caicos Islands, a British territory located about 250 kilometers to the north.
The IS Haitian Coast Guard 41 people were rescued from the boat, of which 11 were in hospital.
“This catastrophic event highlights the risks faced by children, women and men They go in irregular ways and demonstrates the critical need for legal and safe pathways for migration,” said Grégoire Goodstein, IOM’s head of mission in Haiti, in the statement.
“The IS Haiti’s socio-economic situation is distressing. “The extreme violence in recent months has only left Haitians with even more desperate measures,” he says.
Haiti, the poorest country in Americalong suffered the scourge of criminal gangs that control 80% of the capital, Port-au-Prince, and the main national highways.
Some of these gangs, accused of murders, looting, rape and kidnapping, came together in February to challenge then Prime Minister Ariel Henry.
In their crimes they attacked prisons, police stations, public buildings and the airport, as well as residential neighborhoods.
After the controversial leader stepped down, new authorities assumed power with the difficult task of restoring security and stopping the country’s serious humanitarian crisis.
“The IS lack of economic opportunitythe failure of the health system, the closure of schools and a lack of prospects are forcing many to see migration as the only way to survive,” the IOM statement warns.
According to this organization of the UN, Haitian Coast Guard there is an increasing number of attempts by boats going north.
This year, neighboring countries have forcibly returned more than 86,000 migrants to Haiti, says the IOM, which is concerned about their return in this “period of unrest and uncertainty.”
he the new government of Haiti It has been announced at the same time that police operations will begin against the gangs.
The national forces will be supported by 400 Kenyan police, who arrived in Port-au-Prince as part of a multinational security mission supported by the UN.
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