For the first time ever, the number of displaced people reached 70.8 million at the end of 2018, according to the UNHCR. The agency's chief warned against a hostile climate for refugees, but Germany came in for praise.
More than 2,500 people have fled their homes in southwest Libya following devastating floods caused by heavy rains that began in late May, according to the UN Refugee Agency UNHCR. Four people have died in the flooding.
Clashes in Tripoli have displaced over 60,000 people, according to the Libyan chapter of the International Red Cross. Many are living in public schools while others have fled to different cities.
A recent spike in violence in parts of northwest Nigeria has forced an estimated 20,000 people to seek safety and security in Niger since April,according the UN Refugee Agency UNHCR.
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) said the number of internally displaced persons in Mali tripled between 2017 and 2018, and figures have continued to rise in the first months of 2019, with hundreds of thousands of people who need humanitarian assistance.
Indiscriminate bombing is continuing, including on residential areas, according to humanitarian agency OCHA. Over 3,000 refugees and migrants are stuck near the frontline.
As fighting in Syria has slowed down, refugees and internally displaced people have started returning to their former properties - only to often find bombed-out buildings where their homes once stood. Amid a staggering number of land disputes arising as a result of the war, women are sometimes resorting to desperate measures in a bid to escape destitution.
Threats from armed groups operating between the borders of Mali and Niger have caused a new wave of displacement in the Tillabéry region of Niger, said Doctors Without Borders. It said more than 8,000 people have been forced to settle in improvised camps without access to clean water or sanitation facilities.
Thousands of children from families with real or suspected links to IS militias are living in separate areas of refugee camps in northeastern Syria, Save the Children says. The aid organization says harsh winter conditions are putting the children at increased risk and has called on countries to 'take responsibility for their citizens'.
Africans who flee their home countries usually have a favored destination. As the number of refugees rises, the countries in which they seek shelter remain the same. Uganda tops the list.
The humanitarian emergency in Nigeria "is far from over," according to Doctors Without Borders (MSF). People continue to be displaced due to violence in the northeast and rely on humanitarian assistance to survive.
Refugees travel 2 billion kilometers each year to escape war and persecution. The UN Refugee Agency now wants people to walk, run or bike that distance to demonstrate their solidarity.