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African leaders are meeting in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, to seek durable solutions to the pressing problem of displaced people on the continent.
Leaders attend the African Union summit, which this year is dedicated to refugees, returnees and internally displaced persons.
Sub-Saharan Africa hosts more than 6.6 million refugees, according to UNHCR, the UN refugee agency.
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According to UNHCR, at least one person is forcibly displaced every two seconds as a result of conflict or persecution.
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Africa has the second highest number of displaced people in the world, according to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA).
This figure has recently increased due to ongoing crises in the Central African Republic, Southern Sudan, Somalia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Burundi.
According to ECA, the continent is home to about 37 percent of the 19.6 million refugees and 39.1 million internally displaced people worldwide.
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Source: Al Jazeera News
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