Latest report shows that the number of people internally displaced by conflicts around the world rose last year to a record of 40.8 million/AFPLONDON, United Kingdom, May 11 – The number of people internally displaced by conflicts around the world rose last year to a record 40.8 million people, a report out on Wednesday showed.
“This is the highest figure ever recorded and twice the number of refugees worldwide,” said Jan Egeland, head of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), co-authors of the report with the Geneva-based Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC).
Some 8.6 million internally displaced people (IDPs) linked to conflict were …read more
Source: Capital News
