Hundreds of people are crammed into small white tents in the courtyard of a sports center in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, drying clothes on the access ramps and washing their children in small, plastic tubs.
Some 8,730 people have been displaced around the heavily populated neighborhood of Carrefour-Feuilles, according to U.N. estimates on Saturday, more than half due to a fresh outbreak of violence two days earlier.
Under-resourced police have struggled to fight off the armed groups which now control large parts of the capital, their turf wars driving aAriel Henry, Haiti's unelected prime minister, called for urgent international security assistance last October.
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