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Refugee crisis 2016: 12 countries, 12 months

A look back at the 2016 refugee crisis from 12 different countries.

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Refugees 2016
A Mozambican child plays with a hoe outside a makeshift shelter at Kapise camp in Malawi's Mwanza district, January 18, 2016. [Eldson Chagara/Reuters]
Published On 31 Dec 2016
Refugees 2016
An internally displaced Syrian woman, covered with mud, carries her belongings as she is stuck with others in the town of Khirbet Al-Joz, in Latakia countryside, waiting to get permission to cross into Turkey near the Syrian-Turkish border, Syria, February 7, 2016. [Ammar Abdullah/Reuters]
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Refugee children play with a stuffed toy at a muddy makeshift camp at the Greek-Macedonian border, near the village of Idomeni, Greece, March 15, 2016. [Alexandros Avramidis/Reuters]
Refugees 2016
An internally displaced woman walks through a camp on the outskirts of the town of Qol Ujeed, on the border with Ethiopia, Somaliland, April 17, 2016.[Siegfried Modola/Reuters]
Refugees 2016
Returning Ivorian refugees wait in line to be screened as they arrive from Liberia in the village of Prolo, Ivory Coast, May 20, 2016. [Luc Gnago/Reuters]
Refugees 2016
A displaced woman carries her sleeping child at a refugee camp in the Makhmour area near Mosul, Iraq, June 15, 2016. [Azad Lashkari/Reuters]
Refugees 2016
African Refugees stranded in Costa Rica charge their phones at a makeshift camp at the border between Costa Rica and Nicaragua, in Penas Blancas, Costa Rica, July 15, 2016. [Juan Carlos Ulate/Reuters]
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Refugees 2016
Children stand at a camp for internally displaced people near Sanaa, Yemen, August 15, 2016. [Khaled Abdullah/Reuters]
Refugees 2016
Children play on the ground outside their makeshift home in a refugee camp in Mogadishu, Somalia, September 20, 2016. [Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP Photo]
Refugees 2016
An Afghan adolescent migrant waves from a van as he departs with six others from the emergency shelter for minors in Saint Omer, France as they leave for Britain, October 18, 2016. [Pascal Rossignol/Reuters]
Refugees 2016
A Rohingya Muslim woman poses for a photograph with her son at the Leda unregistered Rohingya refugee camp in Teknaf near Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, November 22, 2016. [Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters]
Refugee 2016
A child, who fled fighting in South Sudan, collects water from a valley at Bidi Bidi refugee’s resettlement camp near the border with South Sudan, in Yumbe district, northern Uganda, December 7, 2016. [James Akena/Reuters]