Ethiopia is home to the highest number of conflict-related internally displace people (IDP) in the world, according to a new report by Internal Displacement Monitoring Center’s (IDMC) 2019 Global report.
According to the report, Ethiopia has 2.9 million internally displaced people due to conflicts and violence, higher than in Syria and Somalia.
“Unresolved conflicts and a rise in communal violence were responsible for most of the 10.8 million new displacements associated with conflict and violence in 2018,” says the report. “Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Syria accounted for more than half of the global figure.” the report revealed on Saturday.
“Against a backdrop of important and many positive political changes, 2.9 million new displacements associated with conflict were recorded in Ethiopia, the highest figure in the world and four times as many as in 2017,” reads the report.
The IDMC report also lists disaster-related displacements in the world in 2019.
“Weather-related hazards, particularly storms, accounted for the majority of the new displacement associated with disasters, triggering 17.2 million displacements in 2018.
The Philippines, China and India between them accounted for around 60 per cent of all new displacements, mostly in the form of evacuations.”
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