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GENEVA, Switzerland, June 19 (UPI) -- The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees blames the first increase in the number of the world's refugees in five years on the crisis in Iraq.
The report released in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday by UNHCR on the eve of World Refugee Day said the figure increased 14 percent to almost 10 million refugees.
The number of refugees under the agency's mandate is at the highest level since 2002, when about 10.6 million refugees were reported. At the same time, the share of other categories of people under the U.N. refugee agency's care also grew sharply, in most cases as a result of improved registration systems and more accurate statistics.
In 2006 the main group of refugees under UNHCR continued to be Afghans at 2.1 million, followed by Iraqis at 1.5 million, Sudanese at 686,000 and Somalis at 467,000.
The report also pointed to some bright spots with some 734,000 refugees returning home voluntarily mainly to Afghanistan, Angola, Burundi, Liberia and Sudan.
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