Haiti Expands State of Emergency to Entire Country

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Haitian authorities have announced the country’s state of emergency has been expanded to include the entire country as government and international forces battle against violent gangs.

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00:00Security in Haiti is rapidly deteriorating and the government has now expanded a state

00:05of emergency in the capital to cover the entire country.

00:10The government and international forces are battling with violent gangs that have now

00:14spread their control beyond the capital city of Port-au-Prince.

00:17It comes one day before U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is set to land in the

00:22country to address the violence.

00:25The United Nations estimates the fighting has displaced more than half a million people

00:29and pushed nearly five million into severe hunger.

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