By Jeremy Clarke,
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Last year was one of the worst on record for refugees and the crisis is deepening in 2007 thanks to conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia and Sudan's Darfur region, the United Nation's refugee chief said.
But the accelerating return of refugees to their homes in south Sudan in 2007 -- some after more than two decades -- is one bright spot in the otherwise bad year, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres said.
"It is a very bad year for refugees worldwide. Now there are almost 10 million who have been expelled from their homes by insecurity, and that number is growing," Guterres told Reuters in an interview this week in south Sudan.
In the latest available figures, UNHCR said the number of refugees under its mandate at the end of 2006 had grown 14 percent from the previous year to 9.9 million. Continued.....
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Last year was one of the worst on record for refugees and the crisis is deepening in 2007 thanks to conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia and Sudan's Darfur region, the United Nation's refugee chief said.
But the accelerating return of refugees to their homes in south Sudan in 2007 -- some after more than two decades -- is one bright spot in the otherwise bad year, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres said.
"It is a very bad year for refugees worldwide. Now there are almost 10 million who have been expelled from their homes by insecurity, and that number is growing," Guterres told Reuters in an interview this week in south Sudan.
In the latest available figures, UNHCR said the number of refugees under its mandate at the end of 2006 had grown 14 percent from the previous year to 9.9 million. Continued.....
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