“Twenty days ago, my house was completely destroyed. All I have today is what IOM has given us. I am almost 50 and for most of my life, all we have had here has been war. I would like to go back to my city and rebuild my home, but I am afraid that we will not have peace for a long time,” said Faisal, who fled Salah Al-Din to the Khazir Transit camp with his 14 children.
IOM data reveals that the majority of the displaced have found refuge in their governorate of origin. Ninewa, Salah al-Din and Diyala host no displaced people identified as having displaced from other governorates. Eighty-three per cent of the displaced people in Ninewa have chosen to stay in their governorate.
The vast majority (53 per cent) of those displaced are from the governorate of Ninewa while 40 per cent of displaced are from the governorate of Salah al-Din, 3 per cent from Diyala and the rest from Baghdad, Babylon and Kirkuk.
Families fleeing across governorate borders went mostly in the northern governorates of the Kurdish Region of Iraq (Erbil, Sulaymaniyah and Dahuk), resulting in very few families remaining in the south of the country.
(Source: IOM)
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