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Internally displaced people

The latest news and comment on internally displaced people

October 2026

  • A composite image of three soldiers imposed over a line of refugees with a satellite image  of a fenced camp

    ‘They showed no mercy’: mapping the Rohingya villages being erased by rebel forces

  • Aerial views of Al-Mawasi, Rafah, show farmland in 2023 replaced by dense housing by 2026

    New Google Maps images reveal massive scale of devastation in Gaza

September 2026

  • Two Nepali women sitting on the ground caring for a baby wrapped in a pink towel

    ‘I do not know if the doctor survived’: young mothers recall ‘living hell’ of Nepal’s floods

  • Displaced women and children walk across sandy ground near tents at a camp in Yemen

    Children forced to give up school for work as fighting upends daily life in Yemen

  • Small child and yellow bulldozer with collapsed buildings in backdrop and rebar in foreground

    61m tonnes of rubble: Gaza aid workers face delicate task of clearing ruins concealing up to 10,000 bodies

  • Alaa Hessi stands amid the rubble of her home, destroyed by an Israeli strike

    Gaza: a week in the life
    We followed five people in Gaza from dawn to dusk – this is what the headlines don’t tell us

  • Gaza: a week in the life
    Gaza: a week in the life of five ordinary Palestinians

  • Gaza: a week in the life
    ‘We skate on the rooftops of damaged buildings’: a day in the life of a skateboarder in Gaza

  • ‘We fled with nothing’: the people making perilous journeys to escape violence in DRC

  • Gaza: a week in the life
    ‘First there’s the gruelling task of trying to charge my laptop’: a day in the life of a university lecturer in Gaza

  • Gaza: a week in the life
    ‘This is where I live now, the back of a truck’: a day in the life of a grandmother in Gaza

  • Gaza: a week in the life
    ‘I’m afraid they’ll bomb the cafe where I work, or bomb me’: a day in the life of a 12-year-old boy in Gaza

  • At least 21 killed after Israeli-hit building in Gaza City collapses

  • Israel accused of trying to ‘eliminate’ living conditions for Palestinians in West Bank

  • Houthis claim attack on Saudi base as fighting flares with Yemeni forces

  • Nearly 50,000 Yemeni civilians flee as Houthis advance along Red Sea coast

July 2026

  • A sad-looking African woman in a headscarf looking off to one side

    ‘All I want is to return home’: the desperate and displaced living through years of war in the DRC – in pictures

    The hills of the Hauts Plateaux near Lake Tanganyika have been the scene of fighting for decades between the army, rebel forces and ethnic militias. Pushed one way and another by the conflict are families just trying to survive
    Gallery24

June 2026

  • Zeynab Adan and her children stand infront of their shelter in an IDP camp in Mogadisu's Kahda district 
Somalia humanitarian crisis

    Drought and floods drove them from their homes. But the hunger followed them

    More than 6.5 million Somalis have been pushed to the brink of severe hunger as the climate crisis, fighting and cuts in aid leave a trail of despair

May 2026

  • A woman’s hands embroider #GAZA on to a piece of white cloth.

    Written under collapsing ceilings, typed on phones: the poetry bringing Palestine to the world

  • Women and children sit among yellow water containers in an arid refugee settlement

    Internal displacements caused by violence or conflict at record high in 2025

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