Haitians shelter in sports center as fresh attacks displace nearly 9,000

Hundreds of people are crammed into small white tents in the courtyard of a sports center in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, drying clothes on the access ramps and washing their children in small, plastic tubs.
Some 8,730 people have been displaced around the heavily populated neighborhood of Carrefour-Feuilles, according to U.N. estimates on Saturday, more than half due to a fresh outbreak of violence two days earlier.
Residents began moving out of the area en masse from Aug. 12, when armed gangs mounted their attacks on the area.
Under-resourced police have struggled to fight off the armed groups which now control large parts of the capital, their turf wars driving a devastating humanitarian crisis that has displaced around 200,000 nationwide.
Ariel Henry, Haiti’s unelected prime minister, called for urgent international security assistance last October.