I came across this article because the title “UNHCR says death risk from starvation in Horn of Africa, Yemen, Nigeria growing, displacement already rising” made me curious as to whether the article had statistics to back up the title. Since displacement rates are rising, the UNHCR were forced to update their displacement estimates. They stated “in Uganda we are revising planning from 300,000 displaced to 400,000. ” At first I thought 100,000 was not a big increase, but after I imagined seeing 100,000 people in person, I changed my mind. I realized that 100,000 was a bigger increase than I had anticipated. This huge increase was only for Uganda, the numbers would increase as the displaced amount are counted for more countries. Another statement that they made, “internal displacement dynamics are shifting too. Of the half a million people displaced since November, 278,000 were displaced in the first quarter of 2017.” Over 50% of a half a million people were displaced so far in 2017. My naive self was only thinking about displacement in the United States, so I forgot about the fact that displacement occurs all around the world. The rates are extremely high and they seem to be getting higher.
Michael,
Thanks for linking to this article. The numbers are staggering. More than 20 million people are experiencing famine, but we don’t really hear anything about it in the U.S., do we?
JS
This article was very interesting. I agree with, 100,000 individuals may not seem like a lot of people, but visioning it, that is a tremendous amount. I find the statistics surprising, like Professor Sylvor said, we haven’t heard about this in America especially since the numbers are so high.