Deadly crises grip Haiti

The assassination of Haiti’s president this week is just one of multiple catastrophes the nation faces. A new wave of gang violence in the capital has forced nearly 10,000 women and children to flee their homes, as UNICEF representative Bruno Maes in Port-au-Prince explains to The World’s Marco Werman.

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