Hkawn Htoi, 32, never thought she would have to flee her home.

Between 2016 and 2017, intercommunal violence in the Kasaï-Central province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo forced over one million people to flee their homes.

Conflict, violence and disasters caused 31.1 million new internal displacements in 2016, according to a new report released today by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) and the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC).

Afghanistan’s victims of war: In early August, armed men attacked the village of Mirza Olang in northern Afghanistan. Many were killed or taken captive. These are the stories of those who escaped.

HONDURAS: Families are at risk of forced displacement in San Pedro Sula, as criminal gangs dominate large areas of the country’s main cities, where poverty is rampant.

Almost a million people have been forced to flee inside the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) in the first six months of the year.

"I didn’t realise I was shot until things calmed down," says Aden, recounting the day he was forcibly evicted from his home in an informal settlement outside the Somali capital of Mogadishu.

“Life was terrible under ISIS. They told us what to wear, how to have our hair, not to shave our beards,” recalls Seker.

Her family had already fled and her husband died years ago, but Labang Lu refused to leave her home. Until soldiers began shooting at her kitchen window.

Seventy-five-year-old Maymuna Ahmed has lived her whole life in eastern Ethiopia’s Babile town. One night, everything changed: Maymuna’s house was burned to the ground and she is now among the one million people who has been forced to flee in the region.