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Refugees in Guinea-Bissau
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9,263
Last updated 31 Dec 2016
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All refugees by origin JSON  .CSV 
Country of origin Source Data date Population
Senegal UNHCR 31 Dec 2016
  90.4% 		8,374
Others UNHCR 31 Dec 2016
  9.6% 		889


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    Boletim de Informacao (Janereiro- Marco 2017)

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    UNHCR 2016 IMPACT REPORT

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    Boletim de Informacao (Janereiro- Marco 2017)

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    Prevencion y reduccion de la Apatridia. Convencion para Reducir los Casos de Apatridia de 1961

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    Proteccion de los derechos de los Apatridas. Convencion sobre el Estatuto de los Apatridas de 1954

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    UNHCR Guinea-Bissau Factsheet December 2016

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    UNHCR Guinea-Bissau Factsheet September 2016

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    UNHCR West Africa 2016 Funding Update as of 31 October 2016

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    The 647th meeting of the AU Peace and Security Council on the post-election situation in The Islamic Republic of The Gambia

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    The Gambia: Displacement

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    Flash report sur la situation des Gambiens en Guinée-Bissau

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    UNOWAS E-MAGAZINE ISSUE 2 : “NOT TO TAKE OUR EYES OFF THE BALL” (DEC 2016)

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    UNHCR mid-year trends 2016

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    West Africa Seasonal Monitor October 25, 2016

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    West Africa Seasonal Monitor October 25, 2016
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    • Guinea-Bissau - Stateless in West Africa

      According to UNHCR estimates, statelessness affects up to 10 million people worldwide, over 1 million of which are in West Africa. There are many factors contributing to the risk of statelessness in the region, which suggest that the population at risk is very large.


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    Statelessness: Over 40m children are unregistered in West Africa —UNICEF

    Nigerian Tribune, 11 May 2017

    Ms Marie-Pierre Poirier, Regional Director, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), says about 40 million children under five are unregistered in the West African region Poirier made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Banjul at the end of the Ministerial... Read more

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    ECOWAS works towards eradicating statelessness in west Africa

    Africanews, 10 May 2017

    The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has a adopted strategies to eradicate statelessness in the sub-region by 2024. During a 3-day ministerial conference that began on Monday in Gambia’s capital Banjul, experts from the bloc’s 15 member states resolved to finalize a plan of acti... Read more

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    West Africa acts to end statelessness

    Namibian, 10 May 2017

    DAKAR – West Africa has become the first region in the world to adopt an action plan to end statelessness, aiming to help more than one million people without a nationality gain identity papers with new laws and better data, human rights experts said on Monday. Stateless people, sometimes referred ... Read more

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    Apatridie: l'Afrique de l'Ouest première région à adopter un plan d'éradication

    Afrique Expansion, 10 May 2017

    La Communauté économique des Etats d'Afrique de l'Ouest (Cédéao) est devenue officiellement mardi la première organisation régionale à adopter un plan d'élimination de l'apatridie, lors d'une conférence ministérielle à Banjul, la capitale gambienne. Le Haut commissariat de l'ONU pour les réfugiés... Read more

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    La Cedeao adopte un plan d’action pour éradiquer l’apatridie

    Jeune Afrique, 10 May 2017

    10 mai 2017 à 14h53 Par Jeune Afrique avec AFP La Communauté économique des Etats d’Afrique de l’Ouest (Cedeao) est devenue ce mardi la première organisation du continent à adopter un plan d‘élimination de l’apatridie, qui toucherait près d'un million de personnes sur cette partie du continent. ... Read more

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    La CEDEAO contre l'apatridie

    BBC, 10 May 2017

    L'Organisation sous régionale a ébauché un plan visant à permettre aux milliers de personnes sans papiers et sans nationalité reconnue de pouvoir exister officiellement. Selon un spécialiste, en Afrique de l'Ouest, l'apatridie, due à une législation restrictive en matière de transmission de nationa... Read more

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    Apatridie : l’Afrique de l’Ouest adopte un plan d’éradication du phénomène

    Agence d'information d'afrique centrale, 10 May 2017

    La communauté économique des Etats de l’Afrique de l’Ouest (CEDEAO) a adopté officiellement le mardi 9 mai, lors d’une conférence ministérielle à Banjul, en Gambie, un plan d’élimination du phénomène de privation de nationalité, appelé apatride. « L’Afrique de l’Ouest se pose en leader de la... Read more

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    L’éradication de l’apatridie en Afrique de l’Ouest préoccupe la CEDEAO et le HCR

    LeFaso.net, 09 May 2017

    Ceci est un communiqué du département communication de la commission de la CEDEAO. • mardi 9 mai 2017 à 00h13min Le ministre gambien de l’Intérieur, Mai Ahmad Fatty, a invité les Etats membres de la Communauté économique des Etats d’Afrique de l’ouest (Cedeao) à tout mettre en œuvre pour éradique... Read more

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      Guinea-Bissau
    Worldbank country facts
    Capital
    Bissau
    Languages
    pt
    Population
    1,844,000
    Area
    28,120 km2
    GDP
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    GDP growth
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    Income level
    Low income
    Gini index
    35.5
    Currency
    XOF
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