Wars, homegrown armed civil conflicts and disasters left 65.6 million people displaced in 2016, a United Nations report released on the World Refugee Day on June 20 says. It puts the global refugee count at 22.5 million, internally displaced at 40.3 million and asylum seekers at 2.8 million. They are followed by 7.7 million displaced Colombian refugees, 4.7 million Afghan refugees and 4.2 million Iraqi refugees. Despite independence, civil war has continued and according to the report, 3.3 million South Sudanese were forcibly displaced by the end of 2016. South Sudan, in fact, has replaced Syria as the country with the fastest-growing displacement of people in the world.

Source: India Today June 20, 2017 18:22 UTC