USAID said some 5.5 million people in Haiti - nearly half the population - need humanitarian aid.
The U.S. government said on Saturday that it is arranging a charter flight from Haiti to the U.S. for those with valid passports. The flight will leave from the Cap-Haitien International Airport, which can only accommodate limited travel amid violence in the country. The State Department instructed citizens and eligible family members interested in traveling to the U.S. to fill out an intake form.
'He sent his two youngest children to live with relatives in Haiti's more quiet countryside while the two eldest live with him at the shelter.'Can you believe I had a home?' he said. 'I was making ends meet. But now, I'm just depending on what people provide me to eat. This is not a life.'More than 200 gangs are believed to operate in Haiti, with nearly two dozen concentrated in Port-au-Prince and surrounding areas.
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