Nearly three-quarters of the world’s displaced people live in 10 countries, including Syria, Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Ukraine and Sudan. Read more at straitstimes.com.
GENEVA - The number of internally displaced people reached a record 71.1 million worldwide last year due to conflicts such as the war in Ukraine and climate calamities like the monsoon floods in Pakistan, according to data published on Thursday.
IDMC said that nearly three-quarters of the world’s displaced people live in 10 countries, including Syria, Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of the Congo , Ukraine and Sudan, due to conflicts that prompted significant displacement in 2022.“Conflict and violence triggered 28.3 million internal displacements worldwide, a figure three times higher than the annual average over the past decade,” it said.
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