‘It’s a siege, it’s a war’: one month on, violence tightens its grip on Haiti

‘It’s a siege, it’s a war’: one month on, violence tightens its grip on Haiti

Port-au-Prince, the capital, has plunged into chaos, and gangs have shifted their offensive to places once considered safe

As gang fighters and police battled outside his home near Haiti’s beleaguered capital late last month, Nielsen Daily Fierrier hurled himself to the ground.

“From six in the morning until six in the evening, the gunfire hardly stopped,” said the 25-year-old electrician from Pétion-Ville, a middle-class suburb in the hills south of Port-au-Prince.

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