9. DR of Congo
Number of refugees: 383K
The situation in Congo is pretty similar to the one in Chad. The country, home to over 67 million people, is host to over 383,000 refugees. The United Nations notes that it is the crises in Burundi, the Central African Republic, and South Sudan that have pushed people towards Congo which ranks 9th in our list of countries that have the most refugees. Furthermore, to the people coming from the aforementioned nations, there are also hundreds of thousands of people coming from Rwanda.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is located in the central sub-Saharan region of Africa and borders Angola, the Central African Republic, South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, and Zambia, as well as the South Atlantic Ocean. Given who its neighbors are, there’s no surprise there’s a high number of refugees living here.
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