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Refugees in The Gambia

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8,039
Last updated 28 Feb 2018
Source - Government, UNHCR 
All refugees by origin JSON  .CSV 
Country of origin Source Data date Population
Senegal Government, UNHCR 28 Feb 2018
  94.0% 		7,557
Côte d'Ivoire Government, UNHCR 28 Feb 2018
  2.3% 		188
Sierra Leone Government, UNHCR 28 Feb 2018
  1.5% 		119
Liberia Government, UNHCR 28 Feb 2018
  0.8% 		67
Dem. Rep. of the Congo Government, UNHCR 28 Feb 2018
  0.7% 		59
Others Government, UNHCR 28 Feb 2018
  0.6% 		49


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Last updated 28 Feb 2018
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    RMMS West Africa: Mixed Migration in West Africa Data, Routes and Vulnerabilities of People on the move

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    UNHCR Gambia Factsheet January - February 2017

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    UNHCR Gambia Factsheet November - December 2016

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    UNHCR West Africa Funding Update 05 June 2018

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    West Africa 2016 Funding Update as of 17 November 2016

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    UNHCR Gambia Situation Map (19 January 2017)

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    RMMS West Africa: Mixed Migration in West Africa Data, Routes and Vulnerabilities of People on the move

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    RMMS West Africa: Before the desert - Conditions and Risks on Mixed Migration Routes through West Africa

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    Communiqué on the food and nutrition situation (June-August) and the 2017-18 agropastoral outlook

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    Impact Evaluations on the Contribution of Food Assistance to Durable Solutions in Protracted Refugee Situations

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    UNHCR’S Strategic Directions 2017–2021

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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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    MHub Survey Snapshot

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

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    OCHA Gambia : Who does What Where (09 Jan 2017)

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    • Gambia - 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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    Deputy UN chief highlights stronger AU-UN partnership to benefit Africa's youth

    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 ... Read more

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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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      Gambia
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    Capital
    Banjul
    Languages
    en
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