A United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has reported that in 2012 alone, Nigeria received a total of 3,154 refugees and about 1,042 asylum requests.
The representative of the UNHCR to Nigeria and ECOWAS, Angele Dikongue-Atangana gave the breakdown in Abuja at a press briefing, as part of activities to mark this year’s world refugees day with the theme “one family torn apart by war is too many’’.
The representative of the UNHCR to Nigeria and ECOWAS, Angele Dikongue-Atangana gave the breakdown in Abuja at a press briefing, as part of activities to mark this year’s world refugees day with the theme “one family torn apart by war is too many’’.
Of these, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Cameroon and Liberia account for the largest numbers.
According to the UNHCR report, conflicts and persecutions displaced about 7.6 million people in 2012.
The number includes 1.1 million new refugees from the conflicts in the Congo, Mali, and the Syrian Arab Republic.
Ms Dikongue-Atangana added that female refugees accounted for 48 per cent of the worldwide refugees’ population, while 46 per cent of the refugee population consists of children below 18 years.
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