The world’s refugee crisis, accelerated by wars in Gaza and Sudan, has surged to another record level this year, with an estimated 120 million people around the world now forced from their homes, the United Nations says.
The report, published on Thursday, blames the expanding crisis on a wave of new wars and a morass of unresolved conflicts, not only in, but also in countries such as Myanmar, Syria, Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The UN refugee agency responded to 43 separate emergencies in 29 countries last year, including crises involving both internally displaced people and cross-border flows.
At a background briefing, Mr. Grandi said it was a “difficult moment” for the refugee crisis, since the “very fragmented” international political situation is making it more difficult to find solutions to conflicts. The number ofThe surge in displacement is being fuelled by the growing intensity of wars, which are producing a rising number of conflict-related fatalities, according to the UNHCR report. Since 2021, an annual average of 27.
This means that fully one-quarter of Sudan’s entire population has now become internally displaced or refugees abroad. Sudan is also on the verge of becoming the site of the world’s biggest, with more than two million people at high risk of famine if they don’t urgently receive aid, according to the UN’s food agency, the World Food Program.