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Refugees in Guinea
All refugees JSON 
5,079
Last updated 31 Mar 2017
Source - UNHCR, Government 
All refugees by origin JSON  .CSV 
Country of origin Source Data date Population
Côte d'Ivoire UNHCR, Government 31 Mar 2017
  88.5%
4,494
Liberia UNHCR, Government 31 Mar 2017
  5.9%
299
Sierra Leone UNHCR, Government 31 Mar 2017
  3.4%
175
Others UNHCR, Government 31 Mar 2017
  0.9%
48
Central African Rep. UNHCR, Government 31 Mar 2017
  0.7%
37
Dem. Rep. of the Congo UNHCR, Government 31 Mar 2017
  0.5%
26


Asylum seekers JSON 
167
Last updated 31 Mar 2017
Source - UNHCR, Government 
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      There are over 30,000 Ivorian refugees hosted in Ghana, Guinea, Liberia and Togo. To date, over 60,000 returned to the country and they continue to do so in safety and dignity.

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      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

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    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

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    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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      Guinea
    Worldbank country facts
    Capital
    Conakry
    Languages
    fr, ff
    Population
    10,628,972
    Area
    245,720 km2
    GDP
    N/A
    GDP growth
    N/A
    Income level
    Low income
    Gini index
    39.4
    Currency
    GNF
    Literacy rate
    N/A