International Security

More people are internally displaced than ever before, and these are the countries worst affected

A girl waits in queue to receive relief food supplies at a hospital in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Turkana District, northwest of Kenya's capital Nairobi, August 8, 2011. The famine in the Horn of Africa is spreading and may soon engulf as many as six more regions of the lawless nation of Somalia, the U.N. humanitarian aid chief said.

The number of people uprooted inside their own countries by war and violence hit a record in 2015, according to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC). Image: REUTERS/Kabir Dhanji

Megan Rowling
Journalist, Thomson Reuters Foundation
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