IOM Documents 13,000+ Newly Displaced From Artibonite Gran Grif Attacks

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) published Emergency Tracking Tool (ETT) 88.2 covering March 28 – April 6, 2026, documenting that more than 13,000 people had been newly displaced in the Petite Rivière de l'Artibonite and Dessalines areas following Gran Grif's coordinated attacks of March 28–30. Approximately four out of five displaced individuals sought refuge with host families; the remaining estimated 2,600 were dispersed across 16 displacement sites. The United Nations confirmed the new displacement wave through spokesperson statements carried by the Jamaica Observer and Caribbean National Weekly. Humanitarian actors reported continuing access constraints in the Artibonite department, limiting aid delivery to newly displaced populations. The ETT figure added to the existing estimated 1.45+ million IDPs already recorded nationwide by IOM as of February 2026. Rights organizations noted that the Artibonite displacement surge demonstrated gang capacity to generate mass displacement rapidly — in this case within days — well beyond Port-au-Prince, posing a direct challenge to GSF operational planning as the force was still building to its advance personnel level.