In the past decade, the refugee crisis claimed headlines on a daily basis. Millions of people have fled their homes to find safety and a future. Situations like the Syrian civil conflict and the persecution of the Rohingya and their exodus to Bangladesh are just two examples.<\/p>\n
When we look at the countries and people who have suffered the worst refugee crisis, we see a very sad pattern, that majority of these countries and people are Muslim.<\/p>\n
Syria<\/strong> living in more than 125 countries, but most are sheltering in neighbouring countries, including Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt.<\/p>\n Venezuela<\/strong> Afghanistan<\/strong> South Sudan<\/strong> Myanmar (Rohingya)<\/strong> Somalia<\/strong> Iraq<\/strong> Tigray, Ethiopia<\/strong> Yemen<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the past decade, the refugee crisis claimed headlines on a daily basis. Millions of people have fled their homes to find safety and a future. Situations like the Syrian civil conflict and the persecution of the Rohingya and their exodus to Bangladesh are just two examples. When we look at the countries and people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[43],"tags":[5476],"class_list":["post-52342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-special-feature","tag-special-feature"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/refujee.png?fit=400%2C200&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pc0QIf-dCe","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-01 07:46:27","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nNumber of refugees: 5.5 million Number of internally displaced people: 6 million
\nSince 2011, Syria has been engulfed in a civil war that has left the country in shambles. According to the UN Refugee Agency, to date, more than 12 million people have been displaced. Approximately 13.1 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance. As of October 2020, there were about 2.6 million Syrian children living as refugees and about 2.5 million children living as internally displaced people.<\/p>\n
\nNumber of refugees and migrants: 4.6 million Number of people in transit: 400,000
\nThe Venezuelan refugee and migrant crisis is one of the largest displacement crisis in the world. While other refugee crisis have been triggered by conflict and war, the Venezuelan situation is different. To date, about 4.6 million Venezuelans have left the country as a result of an unprecedented humanitarian crisis fomented by years of economic hardship and political instability.<\/p>\n
\nNumber of refugees: 2.7 million Number of internally displaced people: 2.5 million
\nAfghanistan has endured a two-decade conflict, economic hardship and climate-related challenges. As a result, more than 2.7 million people have fled the country, with most going to Iran, Pakistan and countries in Europe. The situation in Afghanistan is so dire that in 2020 it was ranked the least peaceful country in the world by the Global Peace Index.<\/p>\n
\nNumber of refugees: 2.3 million Number of internally displaced people: 1.87 million
\nEstablished in 2011, South Sudan is the world\u2019s newest country. However, in 2013, conflict broke out, sending the country into a downward spiral of violence, economic crisis, hunger and disease. As a result, millions of South Sudanese have fled their homes, creating the largest refugee crisis in Africa.<\/p>\n
\nNumber of refugees: 1 million
\nThe Rohingya people are an ethnic minority group in Myanmar. Since the early 1990s, they have faced discrimination and violence, forcing many to flee the country. Myanmar\u2019s government considers them illegal immigrants from Bangladesh. Most recently, in August 2017, more than 720,000 Rohingya refugees fled escalating violence in Myanmar\u2019s Rakhine state. The vast majority settled in refugee camps in Cox\u2019s Bazar, Bangladesh.
\nIn 2018, even though an agreement was reached for the Rohingya to return home, none did. The refugees don\u2019t want to go back until they have the guarantee of safety and citizenship.<\/p>\n
\nNumber of refugees: 750,000 Number of internally displaced people: 2.6 million
\nThe refugee crisis in Somalia dates back 30 years. Political instability and the civil war that started in the 1990s have driven hundreds of thousands of Somalis from their homes. Extreme weather conditions, such as drought in the north and abnormally high rainfall in the south and central regions, have also significantly impacted the ability of Somalis to secure their livelihoods.<\/p>\n
\nNumber of refugees: 260,000 Number of internally displaced people: 1.3 million
\nThe Iraq war started in 2003, but the displacement crisis didn\u2019t emerge until 2014, when violence escalated in the northern part of the country. Attacks launched by ISIS gave rise to a conflict that forced millions of families to flee their homes and destroyed half of the country\u2019s infrastructure.<\/p>\n
\nNumber of refugees: 60,000 Number of internally displaced people: 2 million
\nIn November 2020, armed conflict broke out in the northern region of Ethiopia known as Tigray. As the fighting continues, hundreds of thousands of people are being forced to flee their homes, becoming internally displaced \u2013 about 2 million. Others are fleeing to nearby Sudan \u2013 about 60,000 people. Tigray also hosts thousands of refugees from Eritrea.<\/p>\n
\nNumber of refugees: 200,000 Number of internally displaced people: 3.6 million
\nSince conflict erupted in Yemen in 2015, 200,000 people have fled the country and 3.6 million have become internally displaced. More than 24 million people are in need. Yemen is facing the worst humanitarian crisis in the world today. Even so, the country still hosts more than 200,000 refugees from neighbouring Somalia and Ethiopia.<\/p>\n