Nigeria recorded a 21 per cent increase in newly arrived asylum seekers in the first quarter of 2026, even as the country’s overall refugee and asylum-seeker population declined, according to data released by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
The report, compiled in col
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