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Private sector should integrate displaced people in prosperity journey

Internally displaced refugees carry their belongings as they walk towards Goma, from Nzulo on January 22, 2025. [AFP]

Four years on, we prepare to meet again for the Africa Forum on Displacement, this time in Nairobi. The urgency has only grown, with the number of forcibly displaced people in Sub-Saharan Africa having surged from 36 million to over 45 million. To put this into perspective, that's approximately equivalent to the entire population of Sudan.

At the same time, Africa's private sector is on the rise, driven by innovation across fintech, agriculture, creative industries, telecommunications and infrastructure development.

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