Aid fatigue growing as refugee, displacement crisis reaches new heights

South Sudanese who fled from Sudan sit outside a nutrition clinic at a transit center in Renk, South Sudan, on May 16, 2023.[File,VOA]

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has warned that aid fatigue is growing at a time when a record number of people are fleeing conflict, persecution, human rights violations, climate change, and grinding poverty.

"It is mainly conflict that has driven forced displacement to unprecedented numbers - 110 million refugees and displaced people, the highest in decades," said Filippo Grandi, UNHCR chief, as he opened the organization's annual conference.