2019 Africa Report on Displacement

Source: Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC). Published: 12/2019. This 68-page report represents a timely and relevant contribution to the discussion on internal displacement and its relation to sustainable development in Africa. It provides reliable and up-to-date evidence about the scale of internal displacement in the continent and discusses what is driving it across different contexts. There were 16.8 million people living in internal displacement as a result of conflict and violence in Africa as of the end of 2018. Disasters, particularly those associated with hydrometeorological hazards such as floods, storms and drought, triggered 2.6 million new displacements during the year. (PDF)
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