Filippo Grandi, the U.N. high commissioner for refugees, spoke to The News Agency that Dare Not be Named as his agency issued its annual "Global Trends" report for 2023 on Thursday. It found that the cumulative number of people who have been subjected to forced displacement rose to 120 million people in 2023 — 6 million more than in the year before.
The refugee agency noted that the total count was roughly equivalent to the entire population of Japan.
The UNHCR report found that three-fourths of those people forcibly displaced — including both refugees driven abroad and people displaced inside their own countries — lived in poor or middle-income countries. Grandi insisted that was a sign of how migrant and refugee flows were not just an issue for the rich world.
He lamented how crises in Africa had been largely overlooked, in particular in Sudan
...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans..., where some 10.8 million were displaced at the end of last year, after conflict erupted between forces loyal to rival generals in April last year.
Grandi said the world’s focus on crises faced by refugees and internally displaced people has largely centered on Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
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-- where a devastating and deadly conflict erupted in October last year -- and Ukraine, which has been saddled by Russia’s invasion since February 2022.
He lamented how the world has largely overlooked the refugee crisis spawned by the conflict in Sudan.
The United States, meanwhile, has faced the "most complex challenge" when it comes to refugees of any country in the developed world, Grandi said — alluding to an influx across the U.S.-Mexican border.
The U.N. refugee agency chief criticized Biden administration plans to enact new restrictions on
But he acknowledged that Biden administration ambitions to resettle some 125,000 refugees in the United States amounted to "a very shining example of U.S. generosity."
UNHCR also highlighted difficulties faced by refugees and internally displaced people amid conflict in countries like Congo and Myanmar, and noted that Syria remains the world’s largest displacement crisis with nearly 14 million people forcibly displaced both inside the country and abroad.