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Thirty-five million Africans driven from homes by war and climate disasters – report

Thirty-five million Africans driven from homes by war and climate disasters – report

Data shows a threefold increase in internal displacement across the African continent since 2009, with flooding and drought posing a growing threat

Wars and climate disasters have driven a threefold increase in the number of internally displaced people in Africa over the past 15 years, according to new data.

There are now 35 million people internally displaced on the continent, according to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), compared with 11.6 million in 2009, when African governments signed a landmark deal legally binding them to tackle the causes of displacement.

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