eNCA explainer on World Refugee Day based on UNHCR report on refugee stratistics.

3. THE WORLD AT WAR

6. Eight of the conflicts are in
Africa:
 Côte d’Ivoire
 Central African Republic
 Libya
 Mali
 Nigeria
 DRC
 South Sudan
 Burundi.

7. The number of
refugees and internally
displaced people is on
the rise.
In 2014 alone, 13.9
million became newly
displaced – four times
the number in 2010.

8. Alarmingly, over
half the world’s
refugees are
children.

9. This dramatic growth in numbers of
refugees is being graphically demonstrated
by the number of African refugees
undertaking perilous sea voyages.

12. (615,300)