Their number has reached 100 million refugees

The world is on the brink of an unprecedented refugee crisis

• Huge numbers of Somalis need help.

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• Climate change and drought are among the main factors behind the migration of Africans from their countries.

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Although the number of displaced persons and refugees in the world has reached more than 100 million, according to estimates by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, German writer and political analyst Andreas Kloth sees in an investigation published by Bloomberg News Agency, that the worst is yet to come for the refugee crisis in the scientist.

Andreas Kluth, former editor-in-chief of Germany's Handelsblatt newspaper, says anyone in the world could one day find themselves forced to leave their hometown to escape injustice, violence, tyranny, hunger or any other reason.

So we all have to treat the refugees or migrants who live among us better.

During the last three months, Europe has received millions of Ukrainian women and children, who have fled the war waged by Russia on their country.

There are millions, most of whom have fallen from the circle of Western media attention, who have fled violence in countries such as Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Myanmar, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. However, the refugee crisis in the world, both in terms of numbers and intensity of suffering, has not yet reached its peak.

hunger crisis

The Russian war against Ukraine deprived the world of one of the most important sources of wheat, and many important agricultural crops produced and exported by Ukraine, which is pushing the world towards a severe hunger crisis.

If many peoples of European countries will feel the repercussions of the crisis in the form of a large increase in prices, the poor countries in Africa and the Middle East will suffer from hunger because of the crisis.

EU Migration Commissioner Margaritis Schinas says he expects a new refugee crisis.

And this time the refugees will come across the Mediterranean, not through trains and land borders, as happened in the Ukraine crisis.

The new wave will also be more chaotic, making it feel as if the previous waves weren't chaotic enough.

mixed reactions

Kluth says that in 2015 and 2016, due to his journalistic work, he covered the waves of Syrian refugees who fled the bloody war in Damascus.

Kluth points out that Europeans reacted differently to the arrival of these refugees.

At Munich train station, many Germans received refugees with water bottles, hugs and toys, while other Germans were angry at their arrival, and demanded that they not be received.

But everyone remained calm in expressing their positions.

Likewise there was a divergence of attitudes in the rest of Europe.

European attitudes toward refugees and foreign immigrants range from hospitable hospitality to xenophobia.

Worry

Kluth says his personal experience indicates that "xenophobia" sometimes reflects racist attitudes and cruelty, but more often than not it is just anxiety.

For example, in Germany, clashes with foreigners in 2015 were worse in the eastern part of Germany, which was under communist rule before German reunification in 1990 and is now a stronghold of the populist right. Some of them are second-class citizens in their own country.

Now with the arrival of refugees by bus to Germany, these Germans in eastern Germany are starting to fear that the arrival of these foreigners will make them third-class citizens, and lose their rights, and perhaps the luxury, empathy and concern, which should be the right of citizens of the country Just.

to reject

In America, the Scottish and Irish immigrants who were the first to arrive on American soil refused to welcome the waves of German immigrants in the nineteenth century.

Then the Germans repeated the same words of the Scots as immigrants came from Italy, then Russia, then the Chinese, and so on.

Kluth says that human nature tends to distinguish between members of the group to which an individual belongs and the rest of the people, and shows sympathy with the members of the group more than others.

Even Benjamin Franklin, one of the founders of the United States, who was seen as an open-minded person, viewed German immigrants and other non-English speaking people with suspicion, as "dark-skinned" and suspicious.

So far, we are caught between disparate human motives.

On the one hand, there are feelings of sympathy, openness, mercy, and altruism, and on the other, there are feelings of mistrust and suspicion in the West, and prejudice towards the sons of the homeland.

While some focus on the success stories of immigrants who easily integrated into their new societies and participated in their renaissance, and respected the rules of the game, others talk about refugees who were subjected to a civilizational shock and did not integrate into society and became a burden on it.

Stories worth telling

The truth is that the stories of these and those are real, and they deserve to be told and heard.

But we will find this discrepancy in the stories of the indigenous people, some of whom succeeded and contributed to the prosperity and prosperity of society and respected the rules of the game, and some of them became a burden on society.

Finally, the largest refugee crisis in history is yet to come, but it is looming.

The disasters of wars and famines will not remain in their regions far from the rich western countries, but will spread and expand more as a result of climate change.

Kluth concludes his investigation by saying that even the present-day European peoples are either the ancestors of immigrants or the children of immigrants.

Not only that, but it can be said that the descendants of Europeans could become refugees at some point, so Europeans have to deal with their refugee neighbors more humanely, because the future is not bright for everyone.

horrible drought

• The chief UN humanitarian affairs official in Somalia has warned of devastating prospects for millions of Somalis affected by drought, amid escalating risks of famine.

"The situation is very appalling and bleak: 7.1 million people will be affected by drought before the end of this year," the United Nations News website quoted the Humanitarian Coordinator in Somalia, Adam Abdel Mawla, as saying.

"About 1.4 million children face acute malnutrition this year," he said.

A recent report issued by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs indicated that about 6.1 million Somalis were affected by the drought emergency until May.

OCHA stated that from April to mid-May this year, light to moderate rains were recorded in parts of southern, central and northwestern Somalia, and there were localized storms and flash floods in some areas.

But the amount of rain was below average, and insufficient to alleviate the current drought conditions.

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Any person in the world may one day find himself compelled to leave his hometown to escape injustice, violence, tyranny, hunger, or any other reason.

While some focus on the success stories of immigrants who easily integrated into their new societies, participated in their renaissance, and respected the rules of the game, others talk about refugees who were subjected to a civilizational shock and did not integrate into society, and became a burden on it.

The Russian war against Ukraine deprived the world of one of the most important sources of wheat, and many important agricultural crops produced and exported by Ukraine, which is pushing the world towards a severe hunger crisis.

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