Based on analysis of data from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, at least 1.85 million children in sub-Saharan Africa were left displaced within their countries by climate shocks at the end of 2022, compared to one million children left displaced by similar crises in 2021. Some of these children were displaced multiple times, while others only once, but all remained displaced from home at the end of the year, living in camps, with extended family, or other temporary arrangements. Flooding in Borno state and across other parts of Nigeria led to the country having sub-Saharan Africa's highest number of new internal displacements due to climate disasters in 2022, with 2.

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