(MENAFN- Saudi Press Agency) Bangkok Safar 21 1437 December 03 2015 SPA -- At least 1 in 7 people of the world's population have
moved away from home mainly because they have been forced to leave
or for economic reasons the head of the International Organization
Migration said on Thursday according to dpa.
"We live in a period of unprecedented mobility with 250 million
international migrants and 750 million internal migrants" IOM
director general William Lacy Swing said ahead of a migration
conference in Bangkok on Friday.
"We are also seeing the highest number of forced migrants since the
Second World War" Swing said attributing the high numbers to the
Ebola outbreak last year ethnic clashes in sub-Saharan Africa and
ongoing political instability in the Middle East.
--SPA
13:10 LOCAL TIME 10:10 GMT
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