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Refugees in Sierra Leone
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Last updated 31 May 2017
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All refugees by origin JSON  .CSV 
Country of origin Source Data date Population
Liberia UNHCR, Government 31 May 2017
  95.5% 		657
Others UNHCR, Government 31 May 2017
  4.5% 		31


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    UNHCR Sierra Leone Factsheet April 2017

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    UNHCR Sierra Leone Factsheet April 2017

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    • Sierra Leone - 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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      Sierra Leone
    Worldbank country facts
    Capital
    Freetown
    Languages
    en
    Population
    6,453,000
    Area
    72,180 km2
    GDP
    N/A
    GDP growth
    N/A
    Income level
    Low income
    Gini index
    42.5
    Currency
    SLL
    Literacy rate
    N/A