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AID BY NUMBERS: The world's 10 worst displacement hotspots
14 Mar 2006
Source: AlertNet
LONDON (AlertNet) – Ethnic and religious fighting, land disputes and communal conflicts have driven more than 3 million Nigerians from their homes since 1999, a report showed in mid-March.

That gives Nigeria the dubious honour of being home to the third-highest number of internally displaced people (IDPs) in the world after Sudan and Colombia.

How do other countries stack up? Here’s a league table of countries with the highest numbers of people internally displaced by violence.

1. Sudan 5.4 million
2. Colombia 1.7 to 3.7 million
3. Nigeria 3 million
4. Uganda 1.7 million
5. Congo 1.7 million
6. Iraq 1.2 million
7. Algeria 1 million
8. Turkey 356,000 to more than 1 million
9. India At least 600,000
10. Indonesia 342,000 to 600,000

Source: Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre except Nigeria’s National Commission for Refugees for Nigeria

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