Africa Center for Strategic Studies With Africa's population expected to double by 2050, the rapid increase in the number of forcibly displaced Africans of the past decade will continue to expand unless key drivers are reversed. Click for printable PDF version There are 27 million people in Africa who have been forcibly displaced
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Boko Haram: Hunger compels displaced children to feed on onion leaves
Jude Johnson with Agency report Intense hunger as a result of the inadequacy of food items in an Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp in the outskirts of Bauchi, has forced adolescent children to feed on onion leaves for survival. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondents who visited the camp, located
IMF worries over rise in internally displaced persons in Nigeria
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says it is concerned with the rising numbers of Internally Displaced Persons in Nigeria and other Sub-Saharan African countries. The IMF said this on Friday in Washington DC in its latest Regional Economic Outlook for sub-Saharan Africa report presented by Director of the IMF’s African Department,
2018 WHD dedicated to aid workers, people in conflict zones
Jude Johnson The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) in collaboration with National Commission for Refugees, Migrant and Internally Displaced Persons (NCRMIDP) with support of the United Nation Systems in Nigeria and ECOWAS is organizing the 2018 World Humanitarian Day (WHD) in Nigeria. Mr. Sani Datti, who in a statement on Wednesday on behalf