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According to the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), in mid-2020, Nigeria hosted 1.3 million migrants (including refugees) representing just 0.6% of the country’s population – far below both the overall global average and the average for West Africa, and the lowest proportion of any Economic C...

It is difficult to say how many women and girls are trafficked from, into, and within Nigeria, as there isn’t reliable data. However, Nigeria is routinely listed as one of the countries with large numbers of trafficking victims overseas, particularly in Europe, with victims identified in more than...

According to data from the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), a total of 508,033 refugees and asylum seekers lived in Kenya as of 31 January 2021. ...

According to the IOM Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM), conflict and violence led to 169,000 new displacements in 2020 and a total of 2,191,193 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) were living in displacement as of August 2021. ...

South Africa’s statistics agency, StatsSA, puts the total number of foreigners in South Africa in 2021 at 3.95 million. According to the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA), there were 4.2 million foreigners in South Africa in 2019. Related: Unproven that...

Kenya has 2 of the largest refugee camps in Africa - the Kakuma refugee camp and the Dadaab Refugee Complex. Kakuma hosts more than 150,000 refugees, many of whom are from South Sudan and Somalia. Dadaab comprises three large refugee camps: Hagadera, Dagahaley and Ifo. These camps primarily...

According to the 2018 American Community Survey one-year estimates, there were between 75,995 and 98,859 people of Kenyan ancestry living in the United States....

Research by the Pew Research Centre in 2018, using United Nations data, indicates that Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa and Kenya are the main countries of origin for sub-Saharan migrants living the US and Europe. Nigeria has the most migrant workers both in the US (280,000) and Europe (390,000). ...