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    According to UNHCR figures, the country was currently providing asylum for 6,604 refugees.

    This figure included 5,415 Senegalese refugees dispersed in the northern frontier areas and approximately 750 grouped at the Jolmette refugee camp, some 200 km east of Bissau. Other refugees from Liberia and Sierra Leone were in urban areas of Bissau.

    It also reported government figures stating that an estimated 8,500 citizens of Guinea Bissau were till out of the country, including 3,500 in Portugal and others in Cape Verde, Gambia, Guinea and Senegal.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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