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The Forgotten People of the Western Sahara 200,000 Sahrawi Refugees Abandoned in the Sahara This was my first job out of college working for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. That was 1986-1987. At that time they had been there, which is in the middle of the Sahara, for 12 years.

Today is International Refugee Day. By The Fault takes a look at the plight of refugees. Iraqi Refugees By Location and Number About 2 million Iraqis live in increasingly difficult conditions in countries like Syria, Jordan, Egypt and Lebanon. Another 1.7 million are internally displaced persons (IDPs).