African countries top list of world's most neglected displacement crises | DW News

Every year, the number of people who've been driven from their homes by violence, drought, or disease seems to increase, and new figures show that number has doubled in the last decade. That's one of the conclusions of a report from the Norwegian Refugee Council. It analyzes yearly the most neglected displacement crises in the world. In 2024, eight of the ten worst-hit countries were in Africa, and topping that grim list is Cameroon. Ethiopia's troubles are well-known. Ranked third-worst is Mozambique, which appears on the list for the first time. After that, come Burkina Faso, Mali and Uganda, DR Congo is 8th and Somalia 10th.

One of the factors making life unbearable for displaced people is that nobody seems to care. Take Mozambique. It is caught in a relentless storm of armed conflict and climate disaster, with more than 1.4 million people forced from their homes and nearly 5 million people facing critical hunger. Yet at the same time, international aid is collapsing. Mozambique's problems are largely invisible in mainstream media and political will to tackle them is non-existent in the country, says the Norwegian Refugee Council. Worst affected is the oil and gas-rich region of Cabo Delgado, where there's been an Islamist insurgency since 2017. More than six thousand people have been killed since then, 2,500 of them civilians.

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