The OCHA Weekly report which was released noted that 29,650 new IDPs were reported in the past week.
“A total of 316,470 people have been verified as being displaced by conflict in 2018, according to OCHA’s Displacement Tracking System (DTS). Overall, the number of people displaced so far this year is 34.7 per cent less than the same period last year (485,310)”, the report added.
IOM also reported that close to 14000 people returned to Afghanistan this week.