Country of origin | Source | Data date | Population | |
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Senegal | Government, UNHCR | 31 Oct 2017 | 94.2% | 7,530 |
Côte d'Ivoire | Government, UNHCR | 31 Oct 2017 | 2.4% | 189 |
Sierra Leone | Government, UNHCR | 31 Oct 2017 | 1.5% | 120 |
Liberia | Government, UNHCR | 31 Oct 2017 | 0.8% | 67 |
Autres | Government, UNHCR | 31 Oct 2017 | 0.6% | 48 |
Dem. Rep. of the Congo | Government, UNHCR | 31 Oct 2017 | 0.5% | 40 |
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.
UN News Centre, 03 Jul 2017
3 July 2017 – Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed today called for strengthening the relationship between the African Union (AU) and the United Nations to deliver on promised development for Africa's youth. Addressing her first African Union Summit since taking office, Ms. Mohammed said that ... Lire plus
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... Lire plus
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... Lire plus
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 ... Lire plus
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The Gambia | ACAPS | |
Humanitarian Data Exchange | |
The Gambia | Humanitarian data | |
Humanitarian Response | |
The Gambia | Humanitarian Response | |
ReliefWeb | |
The Gambia | ReliefWeb | |
The World Bank | |
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UNHCR West Africa | |
Facebook page of UNHCR West Africa | |
UNHCR West Africa Statelessness | |
Facebook page of UNHCR West Africa Statelessness |
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