Over 70 million people internally displaced worldwide in 2022 say monitors

AFP English 2023-05-11

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An unprecedented 71.1 million people were registered as internally displaced in 2022 -- up 20 percent from a year earlier -- amid mass displacement caused by factors including Russia's war in Ukraine and the monsoon floods in Pakistan. Alexandra Bilak, Director of the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, warns that the findings of the body's latest annual report "paint a rather bleak picture of the world".

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