x     A report from the National Human Rights Defense Network (RNDDH) revealed that armed gangs in Haiti carried out 24 massacres and attacks in the Artibonite department between January and September this year, leaving at least 84 people dead in the country's historical agricultural heartland. The uncontrolled violence that previously devastated the West department has now spread to Artibonite and the Center. Nationally, the UN reported 4,239 people were killed in Haiti in the first eight