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More than 71 million displaced by war and natural disasters last year, aid agency says
Pastoralist women and children displaced by drought collect water from a distribution point near the Farburo site for internally-displaced people in Gode, in the Somali region of Ethiopia on January 27, 2018
THE war in Ukraine helped push the global total of people left internally displaced by conflict or natural disasters to a record high of 71.1 million last year, according to the Norwegian Refugee Council.
The council’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre said in a report today that by the end of 2022, 5.9 million people had been forced to move inside Ukraine because of Russia’s invasion.
This raised the global total of people internally displaced by conflict and violence to more than 62m, an increase of 17 per cent since 2021.
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