Nigeria carries the highest number of internally displaced persons in West Africa, hosting roughly 8.18 million IDPs.This is according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees June 2025 ...

Lifesaving services including health, water and sanitation, telecommunications and protection services are at imminent risk ...

Internally displaced people, referred to as IDPs, have been forced to flee their homes by conflict, violence, persecution or disasters, however, they remain within the borders of their own country. At ...

U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi says that more than two million Syrian refugees and internally displaced people have returned home since the fall of the government of Bashar Assad i ...

If displaced families are unable to return to their homes by the deadline, they will be allotted newly built pre-fabricated ...

Although climate-fuelled disasters are getting worse, 90 per cent of people internally displaced by the end of 2024 (73.5 million) had fled conflict and violence. In Sudan, ...

Internally displaced people are torn away from their usual surroundings and social support networks. Families are often ripped apart and relatives may be killed or go missing during flight. The loss ...

The number of internally displaced people (IDPs) reached a record 71.1 million worldwide last year due to conflicts such as the war in Ukraine and climate calamities like the monsoon floods in ...

Relief: They outnumber refugees 2 to 1 globally, yet no U.N. or U.S. government agency exists to help them, the General Accounting Office notes.

Helping internally displaced people is difficult; there is no internationally agreed upon convention about how to aid such refugees. The United Nation’s 1998 Guiding Principles On Internal ...

Georgetown University professors collaborated with a committee of the United Nations to produce the first-ever long-term study on internally displaced persons in Iraq. The study analyzed 3,500 ...