Nearly three-quarters of the world's displaced people live in 10 countries, including Syria, Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Ukraine and Sudan
The Geneva-based Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre said that figure represented a 20 per cent increase since 2021, with an unprecedented number of people fleeing in search of safety and shelter.
IDMC said that nearly three-quarters of the world's displaced people live in 10 countries, including Syria, Afghanistan, the 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.
The bulk of displacements last year — 32.6 million — was due to disasters including floods, droughts and landslides. "Conflict and disasters combined last year to aggravate people's pre-existing vulnerabilities and inequalities, triggering displacement on a scale never seen before," said Mr Jan Egeland, secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, which set up IDMC in 1998.
"The war in Ukraine also fuelled a global food security crisis that hit the internally displaced hardest. This perfect storm has undermined years of progress made in reducing global hunger and malnutrition." REUTERS
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