Children in Haiti are “terrorised and traumatised” by the gang violence which continues across the country’s capital, killing people and forcing them to flee their homes. That’s according to the UNICEF representative in the Caribbean island country, Bruno Maes.

Armed gangs reportedly now control 80 to 90 per cent of Port-au-Prince, and over 360,000 people – the majority of them children – have been displaced.

Mr. Maes said there is a growing sense of desperation and a lack of hope among people who have been struggling to survive through a period of Haitian history characterised by a confluence of humanitarian, economic, political and security crises.

UN News’s Daniel Dickinson asked Mr. Maes about the current situation in the beleaguered country.