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Record 114 million people now displaced worldwide: UN

GENEVA, Oct 25, 2023 (AFP) – The number of people worldwide living in forced displacement from their homes is estimated to have exceeded 114 million, the United Nations said Wednesday — a record figure. “The number of people displaced by war, persecution, violence and human rights violations globally is likely to have exceeded 114 million at the end of September,” UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, said in a statement. The main drivers in the first […]

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Ukraine faces ‘massive displacement’ if conflict escalates: NGO

KYIV, Ukraine (AFP) – Up to 2 million people living along the front line in eastern Ukraine risk displacement if the festering conflict spirals, the Norwegian Refugee Council warned on Thursday, as tensions soar over Russia’s military buildup. “The lives and safety of millions of people in eastern Ukraine hang in the balance as we wait for a political breakthrough to the current impasse,” Jan Egeland, Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), said […]

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