Conflict, violence push global internal displacement to record high levels

FILE - This photo taken on April 29, 2024, shows Kayah people gathering at a delivery of drinking water by the charity Clean Yangon at a camp for internally displaced people in Demoso township, in Myanmar's eastern Kayah state. Internally displaced women wait in a queue to collect aid from a group at a camp in Gadaref, Sudan, on May 12, 2024. A street in the city of Omdurman damaged in the year-long civil war in Sudan, April 7, 2024.

Conflicts and violence have pushed the number of internally displaced people around the world to a record-breaking high of 75.9 million, with nearly half living in sub-Saharan Africa, according to a new report by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center.