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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)

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