The latest news and comment on internally displaced people
August 2024
Children ‘at death’s door’ as famine declared in Sudanese refugee camp
UN-backed early warning network confirms people in the Darfur city of El Fasher are starving to death
July 2024
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
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
‘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
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
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
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
Tens of thousands flee camp in Sudan after attacks by RSF paramilitaries
‘I pray to you not to shoot us’: Mali’s Fulani herders languish in camps after violence – in pictures
‘Bullet wounds are common’: crime rife in DRC’s rebel-besieged city of Goma
Global violence causing record numbers of internally displaced people
April 2024
UK Foreign Office holding secret talks with Sudan’s RSF paramilitary group
Ten years on from Chibok, what happened to the 276 Nigerian girls snatched from their school?
March 2024
Inside Guardian Weekly
Sudan’s exodus: inside the 29 March Guardian Weekly
The victims of Africa’s forgotten war. Plus: After the Moscow attack, a cynical blame game begins
Rights and freedom
‘Here, there is no future’: ethnic cleansing and fresh atrocities drive exodus of thousands from Darfur
Almost a year since conflict reignited in Sudan, its terrified people are crossing borders to Chad and beyond. An increasing number are trying to reach Europe as food supplies dwindle in the refugee camps and the eyes of the world look elsewhere
‘Nobody would listen to me, so I told the camera’: film of Islamic State survivor’s story premieres in UK
Mediha Ibrahim Alhamad was 10 years old when Islamic State fighters raided her Yazidi village and sold her into sexual slavery. The gift of a film camera ‘saved her life’ and led to an award-winning documentary
February 2024
Gaza diary
Gaza diary part 47: ‘Children have gotten really old recently, their innocence stolen’
Houthi attacks in Red Sea having a ‘catastrophic’ effect on aid to Sudan
Gaza diary
Gaza diary part 46: ‘I have been sick for almost a week. Is it because of the half-rotten food we are eating?’
‘Our last stop is Rafah’: trapped Palestinians await Israeli onslaught
Rights and freedom‘Here, there is no future’: ethnic cleansing and fresh atrocities drive exodus of thousands from DarfurAlmost a year since conflict reignited in Sudan, its terrified people are crossing borders to Chad and beyond. An increasing number are trying to reach Europe as food supplies dwindle in the refugee camps and the eyes of the world look elsewhere
