Conflict created more internal displacement than disasters last year: monitors

GENEVA (AFP) -- Conflict and violence drove more people to flee within their own countries last year than natural and manmade disasters for the first time on record, monitors said Tuesday. The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre and the Norwegian Refugee Council said in their annual report on the subject that at the end of 2025, 82.2 million people were living in internal displacement worldwide. The figure is just under the highest number ever recorded in 2024. "Numbers remain at historic hi

By The Korea Herald