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Article: UNHCR: 6.7 Million Refugees in Africa
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- June 18, 1996
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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Tuesday
reported that there were 6.7 million refugees, 1.9 million Internally
displaced persons in Africa as of January 1995, among nearly 12
million people of concern to it on the continent.
Globally, the people of concern to UNHCR number over 27 million.
In 1994, the UN refugee agency provided material assistance to
some 17.6 million people worldwide, 8.9 million of them in Africa
the biggest group of aid recipients.
Africa committed itself to opening its doors to refugees on June
20,1974. Zaire is now the largest asylum country of refugees in
Africa as home of some 1.5 million refugees as of May, 1.08 million
of them Rwandans. It ...