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Four years after the fall of the Taleban, an estimated 153,000 people remain displaced in Afghanistan, with the largest concentration in the south of the country near Kandahar. While drought accounts...

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...

International talks to determine whether Kosovo should be given independence or remain a part of Serbia - expected to open before the end of 2005 following a recent recommendation to the UN Security...

At least 29 IDPs were killed and several others seriously injured when the Aro Sharow camp in Sudan's West Darfur region was attacked by several hundred armed militiamen at the end of September. This...

Since April 2002, close to four million internally displaced Angolans have gone home following the signing of a ceasefire agreement between the governing MPLA and UNITA, which marked the end of 27...

Summary An estimated 250,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) - mainly ethnic Serbs and Roma who fled within and out of Kosovo when Yugoslav forces withdrew in 1999 - are still unable to go back to...

The tsunami of December 2004 forced a million Sri Lankans from their homes, adding a new displacement crisis to that caused by the island's long-running civil war. As of mid-2005, some 800,000 people...

This summary outlines the main findings of the newly updated country profile on internal displacement in Liberia. The profile was prepared by the Global IDP Project of the Norwegian Refugee Council,...

Since the early 1990s, hundreds of thousands of Burundians have fled their homes to escape fighting between the government and Hutu rebel groups seeking to put an end to the political dominance of...

Summary Uganda: collapse of peace talks dims hopes for two million IDPs Prospects for an end to the massive displacement crisis and two decades of armed conflict between the government and rebels of...

Since the mid-1990s, millions of Congolese have fled their homes to escape fighting between rebel groups and the national government in a complex conflict which has, at times, involved as many as...

This summary outlines the main findings of the newly updated country profile on internal displacement in Nepal. The profile was prepared by the Global IDP Project of the Norwegian Refugee Council,...

GENEVA, 11 July 2005 - Hundreds of thousands of internally displaced Iraqis lack adequate shelter, which renders them extremely vulnerable amid continuing insecurity in large parts of the country,...

Decades of conflict and human rights abuses have caused the displacement of more than a million people within Iraq. The majority of internally displaced people (IDPs) were forcibly displaced under...

GENEVA, 8 July 2005 - Five years after the government and the international community took internal displacement off their agenda in Rwanda, many of the 650,000 people displaced during a Hutu-led...

Executive Summary In 1998 and 1999 the Rwandan government and the UN recognised around 650,000 people in makeshift camps as internally displaced (IDPs) in the north-western prefectures of Ruhengeri...

GENEVA, 5 July 2005 - The Global IDP Project of the Norwegian Refugee Council calls on G8 leaders not to overlook the plight of Africa's internally displaced people in their plans to fight poverty on...

The internal displacement crisis in Burma affects mainly ethnic minority groups, and is particularly acute along the border with Thailand. The military regime's objective of increasing control over...

This summary outlines the main findings of the newly updated country profile on internal displacement in Eritrea. The profile was prepared by the Global IDP Project of the Norwegian Refugee Council,...

Tens of thousands of Arab villagers became displaced within Israel on the destruction of their communities during the 1948 war between the new State of Israel and its Arab neighbours. Among them, the...