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Internally displaced people

The latest news and comment on internally displaced people

October 2024

  • People walk amid wood and other debris strewn across the ground next to some collapsed huts

    Myanmar military kills dozens in heaviest airstrikes since 2021 coup

  • People wait for a food distribution in a displaced persons camp at the Lycée Marie Jeanne in Port-au-Prince on 30 September 2024

    Gang violence leaves Haiti facing ‘worst hunger emergency in the western hemisphere’

September 2024

  • A woman walks past two people sitting on a bench, one under blankets

    Rights and freedom
    Ukrainians face growing homelessness crisis at home and abroad, report finds

  • People sit on top of a jeep on a sandy road as others stand nearby with trays

    Rights and freedom
    ‘We’ve lost everything’: inside a Sudanese town where children die of hunger every day

  • People in hi-vis vests search in rubble in the dark

    Khan Younis safe zone: Israel launches deadly strike on al-Mawasi, Gaza officials say

  • An African woman walks alone through a broken landscape of a demolished township.

    Out of the ruins: film inspired by slum clearance in Nigeria opens in Toronto

August 2024

  • A family, with their belongings strapped to their car, leave their home in the southern Lebanese village of Khiam on August 26, 2024, amid escalations in the ongoing cross-border tensions as fighting continues between Israel and Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip

    ‘Not a soul is left in my village’: the displaced Lebanese caught in crossfire on Israeli border

  • A naval patrol boat is seen close to two overloaded boats full of people on a wide river.

    Thousands flee after Myanmar rebels use drones to bomb Rohingya villagers

  • Filippo Grandi

    Populist politicians will never ‘control’ immigration. Here are the humane alternatives

    Filippo Grandi
  • A young child partly covered with a blanket gazes upwards in a displacement camp

    Sudanese factions using starvation as weapon is ‘cowardice’, US envoy says

  • A drowning town: are Bentiu’s dykes high enough to save it from disaster?

  • Children ‘at death’s door’ as famine declared in Sudanese refugee camp

July 2024

  • Spanish NGO rescues 176 irregular migrants in international waters<br>CARRARA - ITALY, OCTOBER 4 : Survived migrants wait to be disembarked from the ship who were rescued by the Spanish NGO 'Open Arms' on October 4, 2023 in Carrara, Italy. About 176 migrants of 14 different nationalities from Syria, Bangladesh, Sudan, Eritrea, Palestine, Guinea, Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Ghana, Egypt, Chad, Senegal and Mali were rescued by 'Open Arms' who carried out 3 rescue operations at the international waters of the Central Mediterranean sea. (Photo by Jose Colon/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

    Opinion
    Don’t look away! Why writers need to shout about Africa’s migration crisis

    Samuel Kọ́láwọlé
    Many sub-Saharan Africans feel they have no choice but to leave home, myself included. I wanted them to know that their lives – and stories – matter, says novelist Samuel Kọ́láwọlé
  • Girl carrying box on her head next to an open-topped truck.

    Millions of lives upended as Sudan’s civil war leads to displacement crisis

    Country has largest internally displaced population on record, with 7 million uprooted since fighting began in April 2023
  • Women and children sit among washing drying on the line at a camp for displaced people in Burkina Faso

    ‘They live with fear in their stomachs’: increasing violence deepens crisis in Burkina Faso

    About 10% of the population is displaced and 40 of the west African country’s cities are cut off from aid – but agencies say they have only 17% of the funding needed to help

June 2024

  • Gabriel Nzaji teaches internally displaced Congolese children the rules of chess rules as part of the Chess in the City initiative at Focus Congo site in Kibati

    Goma games: how chess offers DRC’s displaced children respite from conflict – in pictures

    Chess players from Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo are introducing children traumatised by violence to the joys of playing the board game
  • An old woman in a headscarf sits in a tent holding a photograph of a ruined house

    Yazidi survivors of Sinjar massacre alarmed by Iraq’s move to close camps

    A decade after tens of thousands of Yazidis escaped an Islamic State attack many fear return to a home in ruins
  • Two children walk along a dusty path carrying water containers

    Conflicts drive number of forcibly displaced people to record high

    Sharp rise, equivalent to population of London, means nearly 120 million have been driven from their homes

May 2024

  • People walk and ride horse-drawn carts carrying their belongings

    Tens of thousands flee camp in Sudan after attacks by RSF paramilitaries

  • Fulani families of semi-nomadic herders in a tent

    ‘I pray to you not to shoot us’: Mali’s Fulani herders languish in camps after violence – in pictures

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