World News in Brief: Half of Haiti’s displaced are children, alarm over low immunisation rates, aid to East Africa

A breakdown in law and order and a wider humanitarian emergency across Haiti have displaced more than 700,000 people – one in two of them children – the UN migration office, IOM, said on Wednesday.

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World News in Brief: Half of Haiti’s displaced are children, alarm over low immunisation rates, aid to East Africa

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