US aid cuts having dire impact on Haiti's children, says UNICEF

FILE PHOTO: Children play in a refugee camp set up at a school for people displaced by gang violence, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti October 31, 2024. REUTERS/Ralph Tedy Erol/File Photo

GENEVA (Reuters) - U.S. aid cuts are having an extreme and immediate impact on thousands of children in Haiti as violence spirals and more young people are recruited by armed gangs, the U.N. children's agency warned on Friday.

More than 1 million Haitians, nearly 10% of the population, have been uprooted by years of conflict in which armed gangs have cemented control over much of the capital and surrounding areas.