n): 41,403 (Democratic Republic of
the Congo), 4,400 (Burundi) (2006)

Saudi Arabia
refugees (country of origin): 240,015 (Palestinian
Territories) (2006)

Senegal
refugees (country of origin): 19,712 (Mauritania)
IDPs: 22,400 (approximately 65 percent of the IDP population
returned in 2005 but new displacement is occurring due to clashes
between government troops and separatists in Casamance region) (2006)

Serbia
refugees (country of origin): 100,651 (Croatia), 46,951
(Bosnia and Herzegovina)
IDPs: 228,000 (mostly ethnic Serbs and Roma who fled Kosovo in 1999)
(2006)

Sierra Leone
refugees (country of origin): 59,952 (Liberia) (2006)

Somalia
IDPs: 400,000 (civil war since 1988, clan-based competition
for resources) (2006)

South Africa
refugees (country of origin): 10,609 (Democratic
Republic of Congo), 7,548 (Somalia), 5,764 (Angola) (2006)

Sri Lanka
IDPs: 500,000-600,000 (both Tamils and non-Tamils
displaced due to long-term Tamil conflict renewed in 2006) (2006)

Sudan
refugees (country of origin): 116,746 (Eritrea), 20,000
(Chad), 14,633 (Ethiopia), 7,901 (Uganda)
IDPs: 5,300,000 - 6,200,000 (internal conflict since 1980s; ongoing
genocide in Darfur region, IDP registration for return to South
Sudan started in 2005) (2006)

Syria
refugees (country of origin): 600,000 (Iraq), 434,896
(Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA))
IDPs: 305,000 (most displaced from Golan Heights during 1967
Arab-Israeli War) (2006)

Tanzania
refugees (country of origin): 393,611 (Burundi), 150,112
(Democratic Republic of the Congo) (2006)

Thailand
refugees (country of origin): 116,499 (Burma) (2006)

Togo
refugees (country of origin): 8,000 (Ghana)
IDPs: 1,500 (2006)

Turkey
IDPs: 1-1.2 million (fighting 1984-99 between Kurdish PKK and
Turkish military; most IDPs in southeastern provinces) (2006)

Turkmenistan
refugees (country of origin): 11,173 (Tajikistan) (2006)

Uganda
refugees (country of origin): 212,857 (Sudan), 20,564
(Democratic Republic of Congo), 20,213 (Rwanda)
IDPs: 1.2-1.7 million (350,000 IDPs returned in 2006 following
ongoing peace talks between the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and
Government of Uganda) (2006)

United States
refugees (country of origin): the US admitted 62,643
refugees during FY04/05 including, 10,586 (Somalia), 8,549 (Laos),
6,666 (Russia), 6,479 (Cuba), 3,100 (Haiti), 2,136 (Iran) (2006)