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10 Senior Protection Officers needed for a joint NRC/OCHA project

Closing date: 20 Nov. 2005

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Global IDP Project Appeal 2005,
Dec. 2004
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Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement

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Global Overview | Statistics

Internal displacement in Côte d'Ivoire: a protection crisis

7 November 2005                                                   IN-DEPTH REPORT

With the deepening political crisis in Côte d’Ivoire raising fears of a return to all-out conflict, the country’s estimated 500,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) face an increasingly precarious future. While South Africa’s mediation efforts have failed to narrow the gap between the government of President Laurent Gbagbo and the rebel Forces Nouvelles, and the transition period after the collapsed October 2005 elections giving particular cause for concern, many UN agencies and NGOs in the country have been finalising contingency plans for the “worst case scenario” entailing massive displacement and refugee flows into neighbouring countries.

B
ut while humanitarian agencies may be preparing for new and visible displacements on a large scale, existing IDPs are generally neglected and in an extremely vulnerable situation. Less than 10,000 IDPs live in established camps or centres; the rest are effectively hidden in desperately overburdened host communities, mostly in the government-controlled south of the country. The economic capital Abidjan hosts an estimated 120,000 vulnerable IDPs, many living in deplorable conditions in shanty towns. In the west and north of the country IDPs and other vulnerable groups are severely affected by poor access to basic social services, particularly health care, water/sanitation and education...(read full report)

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Côte d'Ivoire Country page
Côte d'Ivoire Country profile
 

Sudan: devastation holds back IDP return to south while continuing violence hampers aid operations in Darfur

31 October 2005

An estimated six million of Sudan’s more than 30 million citizens have been forced from their homes as a direct or indirect result of fighting between government troops and allied militias on the one hand and various insurgent groups on the other during the last few decades. The main conflict, which caused the internal displacement of around four million people and more than 500,000 refugees to neighbouring countries, came officially to an end in January 2005 when the government and the southern-based Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army signed a Comprehensive Peace Agreement, leading to the establishment of a Government of National Unity in September 2005. The agreement paved the way for the return of those uprooted from the south; but as of October 2005, only around 250,000 of the 4 million IDPs had returned spontaneously along with insignificant numbers of refugees. The UN still expects the return of another 500,000 IDPs in the dry season from November 2005 to March 2006.  The challenges in the return areas are daunting; the civil war devastated the southern countryside, leaving practically nothing of the little infrastructure which was there before the conflict started...(read more html/pdf)

Sudan Country Page
Sudan Country profile


Other recent updates


Uzbekistan: authorities deny return of several thousand villagers displaced from Tajik border (18 October 2005)

Turkmenistan:
government uses forced displacement as repression tool (18 October 2005)

Turkey:
government takes steps to facilitate return of displaced (7 October 2005)

Angola
: IDP rehabilitation held back by devastated infrastructure (4 October 2005)







 

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Internal Displacement: Global Overview of Trends and Developments in 2004

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2005 in-depth reports


Côte d'Ivoire,
November

Serbia-Montenegro, September

Rwanda, July

Guinea, February

Nigeria, February
 


New FMR


Protecting and assisting the internally displaced: the way forward, October 2005

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