The number of people displaced by war, persecution, violence and human rights violations globally is likely to have exceeded 114 million at the end of September 2023, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, announced. The main drivers of forced displacement in the first half of 2023 were: war in Ukraine and conflicts in Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Myanmar; a combination of drought, floods and insecurity in Somalia; and a prolonged humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, according to UNHCR’s Mid-Year Trends Report, which analyses forced displacement during the first six months of this year.