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14 Mar 2006

AID BY NUMBERS: The world's 10 worst displacement hotspots

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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