Haiti | Gang violence, North Cité Soleil | Mobility situation report: Haiti | Part 1 | Displacements from North Cité Soleil | Overview Update 1 | Published 28 November 2023 – Haiti

Executive summary

According to IOM DTM (Emergency tracking #28), armed attacks in Cité Soleil have led to the displacements of over 1,000 people over 13 – 16 November. Our estimates based on anonymous aggregated mobile phone data up to 25 November shows that at least 1,070 subscribers residing in neighbourhoods located to the North of Cité Soleil (Sarthe, Terre-Noire Blanchard, Bas Fontaine, Duviviers, Village des Rapatriés, Menetas) have been displaced while an additional 730 subscribers are likely displaced. Out of this grand total of 1,800 displaced subscribers, 650 have stayed within Sarthre and Terre-Noire-Blanchard, 420 have been displaced to the communes of Croix-des-Bouquets, Delmas, Petion-Ville and Tabarre (as per DTM observations) and the 730 remaining cannot be located because of method limitations. Few displacements are observed outside of the ZMPP: toward the west of Carrefour (communal section Morne a Bateau ) and the south of Petion-Ville (communal section Montagne Noire), these are not shown on the maps. Longer displacements may have occurred, e.g. to Les Cayes, as in DTM’s report, but were not observed. A few displacements have also been observed in the South of Cité Soleil (Boston, Brouklin and Bélécou neighbourhoods) in line with DTM estimates (not reported here because of their too low numbers). Resident numbers in North Cité Soleil appear to sharply drop, then quickly recover from 22 November onward; however, further monitoring is needed to understand whether this indicates that displaced subscribers are returning to the affected area or whether this may be due to an artefact of the data.