According to the "Global Report on Internal Travel 2025" published this Tuesday by the Center for Monitoring of Internal Travel (IDMC), an NGO that is part of the Norwegian Council for Refugees, the region "registered 19.3 million internal trips in 2024", which totaled by 38.8 million the number of travels in Sub-Saharan Africa.
"Some of the countries with the largest number of people displaced as a result of conflicts and violence, including RDCongo, Mozambique, Nigeria and Sudan, also recorded significant displacements due to [natural] catastrophes," the entity explained.
Sudan is the country with one of the most neglected humanitarian crises in the world and had 11.6 million people displaced in late 2024 because of the civil war that has faced since April 15, 2023.
In turn, the Democratic Republic of Congo (RDCongo), a neighboring nation of Angola, was responsible for 6.2 million internal travels associated with conflicts and violence in 2024, the highest number in the country, cited the NGO.
Nigeria registered 295,000 travels associated with conflicts and violence in 2024.
According to the investigation, the number of internal travels associated with catastrophes also reached the highest amount ever in 2024, and many countries recorded record values.
For example, at Chad, floods caused more travel by 2024 - about 1.3 million people - than in the last 15 years, warns of the study.
In Mozambique, the Chido cyclone has reached a population "already outdated by conflict and violence, prolonging its travel and delaying its recovery," he said.
According to a report table in Mozambique, more precisely in Cabo Delgado, 240,000 people were internally displaced in 2024 for conflicts and violence and 585,000 for natural disasters - 536,000 of which due to Chido cyclone.
"At the end of the year, more than 718,000 people lived in Mozambique," said the entity.
Although 79 percent of the displacements caused by the Chido cyclone were in Mozambique, also the French overseas territory of Mayotte suffered from this catastrophe and recorded about 142,000 trips.
The NGO warned that every year "millions of dollars are spent on international help to people affected by internal travel, but humanitarian financing has been decreasing and, by its nature, is intended to provide temporary support."
Southern Africa was affected by the worst drought in the century and left about 23 million people in acute food insecurity.
Consequently, 273,000 travels were recorded in Botswana, Malaui, Zambia and Zimbabué, indicated.
This is the tenth edition of the report, which is estimated that 83.4 million people were living internally displaced in late 2024, more than twice recorded ten years ago, lamented the NGO.
