word | | Refugees and internally displaced persons |
| fewer | Macedonia | IDPs: fewer than 1,000 (ethnic conflict in 2001) (2007) |
| fighting | Congo, Democratic Republic of the | ... Angola); 37,313 (Rwanda); 17,777 (Burundi); 13,904 (Uganda); 6,181 (Sudan); 5,243 (Republic of Congo) IDPs: 1.4 million (fighting between government forces and rebels since mid-1990s; most IDPs are in eastern provinces) (2007 |
| fighting | Philippines | IDPs: 300,000 (fighting between government troops and MILF and Abu Sayyaf groups) (2007) |
| fighting | Turkey | IDPs: 1-1.2 million (fighting 1984-99 between Kurdish PKK and Turkish military; most IDPs in southeastern provinces) (2007) |
| fled | Montenegro | refugees (country of origin): 7,000 (Kosovo); note - mostly ethnic Serbs and Roma who fled Kosovo in 1999 IDPs: 16,192 (ethnic conflict in 1999 and riots in 2004) (2007) |
| fled | Serbia | refugees (country of origin): 71,111 (Croatia); 27,414 (Bosnia and Herzegovina); 206,000 (Kosovo), note - mostly ethnic Serbs and Roma who fled Kosovo in 1999 (2007) |
| flooding | Korea, North | IDPs: undetermined (flooding in mid-2007 and famine during mid-1990s) (2007) |
| forced | Uzbekistan | refugees (country of origin): 39,202 (Tajikistan); 1,060 (Afghanistan) IDPs: 3,400 (forced population transfers by government from villages near Tajikistan border) (2007) |
| forces | Congo, Democratic Republic of the | ... Angola); 37,313 (Rwanda); 17,777 (Burundi); 13,904 (Uganda); 6,181 (Sudan); 5,243 (Republic of Congo) IDPs: 1.4 million (fighting between government forces and rebels since mid-1990s; most IDPs are in eastern provinces) (2007 |
| FY04/05 | 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) |
| Gambela | Ethiopia | ... Sudan); 16,576 (Somalia); 13,078 (Eritrea) IDPs: 200,000 (border war with Eritrea from 1998-2000, ethnic clashes in Gambela, and ongoing Ethiopian military counterinsurgency in Somali region; most IDPs are in Tigray and Gambela ... |
| Ghana | Togo | refugees (country of origin): 5,000 (Ghana) IDPs: 1,500 (2007) |
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