Haitians Displaced by Gang Violence Face Bleak Future

PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI - Haitians displaced by gang incursions into swaths of the capital now live on the sharpest edge of insecurity in the Caribbean country, which is reeling from the assassination of President Jovenel Moise earlier this month. 

Officials say thousands of people have lost their homes to encroachment by violent gangs into central and southern parts of the city, where urban sprawl envelops more than 2.5 million people.    "I've got no future in this country as a young man. I'm in an unstable situation, I can't build a home, the situation is really critical," said one youth, staying at a shelter in the Delmas 5 neighborhood of Port-au-Prince.  Like others who spoke to Reuters at the center, which gives refuge to about 1,800 people, he declined to give his name for fear of reprisals from gangs.