Countries with most new displacements in Sub-Saharan Africa 2020
The Democratic Republic of the Congo registered the highest number of new displacements in Sub-Saharan Africa as of 2020. Nearly 2.5 million movements of people forcedly leaving their homes were recorded in the country that year. Most of those - some 2.2 million - were caused by conflict and violence, the same reason which had led to 1.7 million displacements in Ethiopia. Overall, Sub-Saharan Africa counted more than 10 million conflict and natural disaster displacements in the same period.