Niger: Operational Update, April 2021
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Due to rising insecurity in Maradi region, the number of internally displaced persons has raised sharply and reached 17,262 persons.
The number of IDPs in Tillabery and Tahoua region has increased with 47% over the last 12 months. At least 138,229 persons are internally displaced.
With the support of the EU, UNHCR has constructed 2,830 social houses for the most vulnerable refugees and Nigeriens in Diffa region
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3,361
Number of vulnerable persons in detention in Libya that have been evacuated to safety in Niger since November 2017.
581,815
Persons who have fled their home countries or are internally displaced and living in Niger.
Rwanda Hailed For Pivotal Role In Fixing Refugee Problems
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Grandi praises Rwanda for offering life-saving haven for refugees
In Rwanda, UN High Commissioner for Refugees visits facility providing safe route out of Libya for refugees and asylum-seekers, including Somali couple who faced detention and abuse
By Eugene Sibomana and Linda Muriuki in Nyamata, Rwanda | 26 April 2021
Somali refugees Abdulbasit and Zainab relax in their temporary home at the Emergency Transit Mechanism in Nyamata, Rwanda. © UNHCR/Will Swanson
When Abdulbasit, his wife Zeinab, and their daughter were first evacuated from Libya to Rwanda in 2019, they were unsure what to expect. The couple had been through a harrowing ordeal. On their journey to find safety, the refugees from Somalia found themselves stuck in Libya, where they faced horrific abuse in detention.
Grandi praises Rwanda for offering life-saving haven for refugees
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Somali refugees Abdulbasit and Zainab relax in their temporary home at the Emergency Transit Mechanism in Nyamata, Rwanda. © UNHCR/Will Swanson
In Rwanda, UN High Commissioner for Refugees visits facility providing safe route out of Libya for refugees and asylum-seekers, including Somali couple who faced detention and abuse
When Abdulbasit, his wife Zeinab, and their daughter were first evacuated from Libya to Rwanda in 2019, they were unsure what to expect. The couple had been through a harrowing ordeal. On their journey to find safety, the refugees from Somalia found themselves stuck in Libya, where they faced horrific abuse in detention.
General background
Niger is located in a geopolitical sensitive area in Africa: linking the Sahara desert with the Sahel, as well as West with Central Africa. This land-locked country not only accommodates a large number of refugees from neighboring countries but is also a major transit hub for migratory movements northwards to Algeria, Libya and the shores of the Mediterranean Sea toward the European Union (EU). As Niger is signatory of the treaty of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and its protocols, citizens of most neighboring countries enjoy freedom of entry and movement within the country.
Although there is no reliable statistical data, it is estimated that more than 60 percent of all migrants crossing through Libya and then Central Mediterranean transit through Niger, with Agadez being the main stop over on the migrants route, followed by Dirkou on the road to Sebha in Libya and Arlit on the road to Tamanrasset in Algeria. In fact, following the effecti
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