According to the agency, the number of displaced people worldwide is currently equal to that of Japan.
The spike was attributed to new wars in Gaza and Sudan; Filippo Grandi, the head of the UN refugee agency, described it as a “terrible indictment on the state of the world.”
He urged nations to address the underlying causes of the issue rather than politicizing refugees and relying on band-aid solutions like border closures, which he told the news would not work.
Rather, he called on nations to collaborate in order to find more long-lasting answers.
According to the agency’s yearly report on the topic, as of April 2024, both new and old problems contributed to an increase in the number of refugees worldwide.
Over nine million people were forced from their homes in Sudan in April 2023 because to a conflict between competing generals.
Since October, the conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza has resulted in the displacement of about 1.7 million Palestinians, or 75% of the population.
Syria continues to have the worst displacement problem in the world, with approximately 14 million people displaced from their homes due to violence that began in 2011.
