The number of internally displaced people in Africa has tripled in the past 15 years to 35 million, driven by conflicts in many African countries and natural disasters exacerbated by climate change, according to a report released Tuesday. teleSUR
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00:00The number of internally displaced people in Africa has tripled in the last 15 years
00:04to 35 million, driven by conflict and natural disasters exacerbated by climate change.
00:11A study by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre indicates that 32.5 million of the
00:1735 million people who have fled to other parts of their countries have done so because of
00:22conflict.
00:24Of these, 80% are currently concentrated in just five countries, including the 9.1 million
00:29internally displaced by the civil war in Sudan in 2023, already more than 10 million in 2024,
00:36where the world's largest internal displacement crisis is occurring.
00:40According to the Centre, figures the next largest group of people displaced by conflict
00:46are in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Somalia, Nigeria and Ethiopia.