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According to the latest data from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, there were 3.2 million internally displaced people living in Nigeria in 2021. ...

North Africans make up the majority of African immigrants to Europe. The top three—Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia—comprise over 5 million of the 11 million African migrants in Europe The USA was home to approximately 2.1 million sub-Saharan African immigrants in 2019, representing 5% of the to...

According to data from the UN Refugee Agency, a total of 555,183 refugees and asylum seekers lived in Kenya as of 30 June 2022. ...

Nigeria registered 1.3 million immigrants in 2020 representing 0.6% of its population. This proportion is less than the global average (3.6%) and the average for the West Africa region (1.9%). Migrants from Benin made up about 30% of all those counted, while others were mostly from ECOWAS countries ...

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....

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...

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...

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...