Migration and internally displaced persons (IDPs) flows had become an endemic phenomenon across the globe, most especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. History had recorded that, the high rate of insecurity such as banditry, kidnapping, terrorism; insurgency, oppressions and disasters both natural and artificial had made people to flee their homelands for personal safety and protection which have caused a lot in the areas of economic and political development. Nigeria as a country within Sub-Saharan Africa was not an exception, because there is constant increase in involuntary displacement and migration in the past decades as a result of security challenges and other disasters which cannot be over emphasized. The largest single cause of displacement, migration and insecurity today in Africa remained armed conflicts added with horrors of genocide based on political and economic and ethno - political cleansing. The influx of African people to more peaceful countries or environments within and outside the continent led by security threats had undoubtedly affected the economic growth and political development of the environments. In view of this, the paper x-rayed the implications of insecurity, displacement and migration on the economic growth and political development within Sub-Saharan Africa. The study recommended that leaders of the sub-Saharan Africa should be proactive in finding lasting solutions to incessant insecurity that caused displacement and migration which impact economic and political development.
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