University of Ghana Director at Centre for Migration Studies (CMS), Professor Joseph Teye Professor Joseph Teye, the Director, Centre for Migration Studies (CMS) at University of Ghana, Legon has said a sharp increase in conflict situations in the sub-region led to deterioration in forced displacement over the decades. He said from 2012 to 2019, the number of refugees went up by 120 per cent; asylum seekers by 404 per cent; and internally displaced persons, 3,825 per cent. Prof. Teye was speaking at a day’s virtual academic conference organised in collaboration with United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) dubbed, “70 years protecting people forced to flee.”