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Celerity

(47,883 posts)
Wed Nov 27, 2024, 06:59 AM Nov 27

Thirty-five million Africans driven from homes by war and climate disasters - report

Data shows a threefold increase in internal displacement across the African continent since 2009, with flooding and drought posing a growing threat

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/nov/26/thirty-five-million-africans-driven-from-homes-by-war-and-climate-disasters-report


The Rusayo IDP camp on the outskirts of Goma in the DRC, home to tens of thousands of people fleeing fighting in the north of the country. Photograph: Alexis Huguet/AFP/Getty Images

Wars and climate disasters have driven a threefold increase in the number of internally displaced people in Africa over the past 15 years, according to new data. There are now 35 million people internally displaced on the continent, according to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), compared with 11.6 million in 2009, when African governments signed a landmark deal legally binding them to tackle the causes of displacement. IDMC said its new report shows even more work is required, especially considering the growing threat posed by flooding and droughts.

“The displacement situation in Africa is absolutely critical, but not hopeless,” said Alexandra Bilak, director at IDMC. “There are many good examples on the continent of governments working to address its root causes. It’s important for them to keep ownership of this issue and the international community to support their efforts. “It is not too late to help those whose lives have been upended when they were forced to flee their homes, but there is no time to lose,” said Bilak. “Helping them find solutions to their displacement is part and parcel of reaching a country’s development goals.”

Conflict accounts for 32.5 million of the people experiencing displacement, 80% of whom come from just five countries – the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Somalia and Sudan. IDMC distinguishes between internally displaced people – the number actively forced to live away from their homes – and each incident of displacement, which accounts for the number of actual movements caused by a person having to leave their home. This can include a single person moving several times, as well as those who have returned home and are no longer internally displaced.

The report also said that last year saw a sixfold increase in climate disaster-induced displacements, rising from 1.1 million in 2009 to 6.3 million. Flooding caused 75% of climate-related displacements in 2023, with drought responsible for 11%. “Disasters are displacing more and more people each year, especially floods which displace people across the continent,” said Bilak. “Sometimes conflict and disaster overlap, such as in Nigeria, where people fleeing the violence of Boko Haram find themselves fleeing again from floods that come almost every year.”

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Thirty-five million Africans driven from homes by war and climate disasters - report (Original Post) Celerity Nov 27 OP
DURec leftstreet Nov 27 #1
The new normal. Passages Nov 27 #2
Every other news item is secondary. Ron Green Nov 27 #3
"Conflict accounts for 32.5 million of the people experiencing displacement" sarisataka Nov 27 #4
International Criminal Court unveils arrest warrant for Central Africa militia leader Celerity Nov 27 #5
I wonder what the purpose was sarisataka Nov 27 #6

Passages

(1,840 posts)
2. The new normal.
Wed Nov 27, 2024, 10:19 AM
Nov 27

The Green New Deal is too radical to fight for and what I just read is not...ok.


report also said that last year saw a sixfold increase in climate disaster-induced displacements, rising from 1.1 million in 2009 to 6.3 million.

sarisataka

(21,526 posts)
4. "Conflict accounts for 32.5 million of the people experiencing displacement"
Wed Nov 27, 2024, 10:25 AM
Nov 27

Campus protests, UN resolutions and ICC warrants coming any day now...

Gotta give them some time, it has only been going on for fifteen years. (TBF African crisis have been mostly ignored since decolonization)

Celerity

(47,883 posts)
5. International Criminal Court unveils arrest warrant for Central Africa militia leader
Wed Nov 27, 2024, 11:01 AM
Nov 27


https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/international-criminal-court-unveils-arrest-warrant-central-africa-militia-2024-11-07/

THE HAGUE, Nov 7 - The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday unveiled an arrest warrant against a suspected leader of a militia that attacked Muslim civilians in the Central African Republic (CAR) in 2014.

According to the warrant, made public on Thursday but issued in 2018, Edmond Beina is accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity including mass killings, murder, rape and persecution.

Prosecutors say he led a group of several hundred armed men who attacked a village in the west of the country in 2014 and killed at least 22 Muslim civilians and drove out hundreds more.

CAR has been mired in violence since a coalition of mostly northern and predominantly Muslim rebels known as Seleka, or "Alliance" in the Sango language, seized power in March 2013. Their dominance gave rise to opposing "anti-balaka" Christian militias. The ICC has been investigating the violence in CAR since May 2014. Two trials are before the court involving two other anti-balaka leaders and one Seleka leader.




https://www.icc-cpi.int/defendant/beina

Beina

About Defendant

Mr Edmond Beina, also known as “BEINA of Tedoa”, “BEÏNA”, or “BAINA”, a national of the Central African Republic (CAR), aged approximately 35-45 years old, reported to be from Tedoa, CAR.

Arrest warrant issued on 7 December 2018. Unsealed on 7 November 2024.

Accused Last Name

Beina

Accused First Name

Edmond

Charges

Allegedly responsible for the crimes against humanity of murder and attempted murder, extermination, deportation or forcible transfer of population, imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty, rape and attempted rape, and persecution ; and the war crimes of murder and attempted murder, intentional attack against the civilian population, pillaging, rape and attempted rape, displacement of the civilian population, and destruction of the adversary’s property – allegedly committed in Guen, Central African Republic, between at least 1 February to early April 2014.

Accused Crime

War crimes

Crimes against humanity

Accused States

At large

Situation Name Colloquial

Central African Republic II

Warrants HTML Link_

https://www.icc-cpi.int/court-record/icc-01/14-32

Defendant site URL

https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/central-african-republic-ii-situation-icc-pre-trial-chamber-ii-unseals-arrest-warrant-mr

Initial Order

Warrant of arrest

Warrant Links

Warrant of arrest

sarisataka

(21,526 posts)
6. I wonder what the purpose was
Wed Nov 27, 2024, 11:16 AM
Nov 27

keeping the warrant secret for six years?

I expected him to be a member of Boko Haram who has been committing atrocities for years across central and western Africa, but it appears he is a leader of a Christian, anti-Muslim militia.

Well I guess that is one.

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