The armed conflict has forced at least 661,000 people around the world to flee their homes in the last two months of the crown pandemic, according to a new report, they fail to protect the world’s leading experts say displaced people and leaving more exposed to the impact of Virus . The Norwegian Refugee Council, said on Friday that 15, 23 and May between March armed conflicts in 19 countries, hundreds of thousands of displaced people, although a part of the global call for a ceasefire Secretary Antonio Guterres UN . Chad and Niger, Afghanistan, Syria and Myanmar were among the countries that saw more than 10,000 displaced according to the report. The most was to leave far in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where more than 480,000 people were forced from their homes due to clashes between armed groups and the military displaced people in the country to 75% of the total number of people in the world accounting. While these countries who are currently bottom of the table for cases and deaths world crown, experts warn that outbreaks could potentially have catastrophic effects were already fragile. Cox Bazar in Bangladesh closely populated, where about 1 million currently live Rohingya refugees from Myanmar, aid agencies have warned that the crown “could spread like wildfire” was confirmed after the first positive case Earlier, on May 14, c ‘were less than 2,000 confirmed cases and 61 deaths COVID-19 in the DRC. And even though there are few official cases of the crown outside the capital Kinshasa, Maureen Philippon, country director for the Norwegian Refugee Council, says difficult for people in the DRC is not worried to hear when you run with the double crisis pandemic and faced an armed conflict. As several countries have taken measures around the world quarantine blockade and social distancing, logistics has on the ground makes the DRC has made it almost impossible because of the lack of protection to be implemented, overcrowding and lack of clean water in places of displacement . “Telling people that defeated twice: first by the conflict than to lose everything, and now to make the living conditions, to increase their risk of the virus,” says Philippon TIME. “One of the men spoke to us [in Ituri] province had its village on May 11, he left with $11 pocket and nothing else to flee,” said Philippon. Another woman said Philippon who had left his home for fear of attack on May 12, and was separated from her husband and two children on the run – who has not seen her since. “What they want is peace. And we hear this from many people: they want peace, they want to make a living on their own.” Democratic Republic of Congo has the place of state in 2003, after the end of the civil war running conflicts and human rights violations of the most complex, with tension in the central Kasai region since 2016. “Almost every small group of conflicts have to climb dynamics, make it difficult to cope, “says Philippon. The number of challenges ranging second largest country in Africa and its geographical challenge settings, and a state struggling to impose their government have contributed to today’s situation. During 2019, 1.7 million people in the DRC, the country’s second highest figure behind Syria were expelled. Congolese people already engaged in various public health crisis in the world such as malaria, cholera and the worst outbreak of measles. In April it was reported six new cases of Ebola in the country after an outbreak was declared in August 2018 that has led to 2,279 deaths. “The outlook is bleak,” says Philippon and stressed that the DRC is home to the second largest food crisis in the world after Yemen. More generally, the crown pandemic has made the difficult humanitarian sector: Oxfam on Wednesday announced that they would withdraw their operations in 18 countries and laid off nearly a third of employees due to financial pressure. The Norwegian Refugee Council says that the crisis has also reduced the access of humanitarian organizations to the areas on the ground, so that the data collection difficult and therefore the number of 661,000 displaced persons is likely to be underestimated. Organizations The new report comes into focus with an appeal to the United Nations Security Council for strong leadership and the response to the pandemic around the world to issue a clear call to halt hostilities and conflicts. “While people are displaced and killed, powerful members of the Security Council of the United Nations Bicker like kids in a sandbox,” Secretary-General Jan Egeland, the NRC said in a statement. We have to climb “The world’s leaders as an opportunity to adjust their focus and jointly push the parties to join in the protection of all communities of COVID-19 Now is not the time for the one-child policy.”
Armed conflict 661,000 people forced to flee their homes during the coronavirus pandemic
