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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

More than three-quarters of people internally displaced by conflict and violence by the close of 2024 were living in countries with high or very high vulnerability to climate change, according to ...

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.

Exclusive: Huge cuts to international aid – alongside intensifying conflict and the devastating impact of climate change – ...

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 ...