GENEVA (Reuters) - A record 33.3 million people around the world were internally displaced by conflict in their countries at the end of last year, 16 percent or 4.5 million up on 2012, an international report said on Wednesday.
The report by the Norwegian Refugee Council said nearly two thirds of the global total were in just five countries - Syria, Colombia, Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Sudan.
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