Of the approximately 21 million internally displaced people in the world, more than 10 million are Africans. Also, by 2001, more than 3.5 million of the more than 14 million refugees and asylum seekers in the world were in Africa. Given the number of conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa, it is not surprising that they cumulatively have claimed at least 7 to 8 million lives. The influx of light weapons financed by cash, diamonds, or other commodities did not cause Africa’s wars but it has prolonged them and made them more lethal. In mid-2001, latent or open hostilities affected Angola, Burundi, Chad, Cote d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo (DROC), Djibouti, Eritrea-Ethiopia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria-Cameroon, Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania-Zanzibar, Uganda, and Zimbabwe. Africa continues to have the greatest number of armed conflicts of any continent. You are in: Bureaus/Offices Reporting Directly to the Secretary > Bureau of Intelligence and Research > Intelligence and Research - Releases > Intelligence and Research - Fact Sheets > Intelligence and Research, Fact Sheets - 2001 Fact SheetĪrms transfers and trafficking remain one of sub-Saharan Africa’s major security problems.
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