Over 2.2 million refugees and asylum seekers live across the Sahel

Refugees and asylum seekers in select Sahel countries hosting humanitarian migrants, August 2025.

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Numbers are rounded.

Chart: pturSource: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), “R4Sahel: Coordination Platform for Forced Displacements in Sahel,” as of August 31, 2025