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Countries With Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) In Africa |
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Data released by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (iDMC) - November.26.2010
- Next BlatantWorld.com data update 2011 |
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| Algeria |
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1,000,000 (EU, 2002) |
Undetermined |
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| Angola |
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19,566 (UNTCU, Nov. 2005) |
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The figure refers to the number of IDPs in the Cabinda region. No recent figure is available |
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| Burundi |
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100,000 (OCHA, November 2006) |
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100,000 |
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| Central African Republic |
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162,284 (OCHA, November 2009) |
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162,284 |
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| Chad |
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168,467 (OCHA, 4 June 2010) |
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170,000 |
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| DR Congo |
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1.71 million (OCHA, 15 November 2010) |
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1.71 million |
Fighting between militia and Congolese armed forces supported by the UN, as well as direct attacks and violence against the population, caused the displacement of some one million people in eastern DRC during 2009. Close to one million people are estimated to have returned home in 2009 and in 2010, but ongoing military operations against rebel groups and reprisal attacks against the population, particularly in North and South Kivu, increased displacement. 1.71 million people were estimated to be internally displaced as of the end of October 2010. |
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| Eritrea |
Government claim all returned or resettled |
No UN inter-agency assessment since 2006 |
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10,000 |
It is has not been possible to get precise number of IDPs on Eritrea in 2008, despite claims by sources that there exists IDPs who are living in host communities. According to a UN source, there has not been a UN inter-agency assessment since 2006. The Government of Eritrea claim that all IDPs have either returned to home areas or resettled. |
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| Ethiopia |
Not known |
200,000 - 300,000 (UN agencies, June 2008) |
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300,000 - 350,000 |
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| Ivory Coast |
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Approx 40,000 in western Côte d'Ivoire (UN, September 2009) |
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Undetermined |
There are no comprehensive statistics on return movements and therefore no clear number of people still internally displaced in Cote d'Ivoire. The only statistics available concern the populations displaced in the West but no data is available on the some 300,000 to 440,000 who had been displaced into Abidjan. |
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| Kenya |
43,777 (Daily Nation, 03 June 2008) |
350,000 (UNOCHA, June 2008) |
77,880 [Kenya Red Cross Society] |
Undetermined |
This figure takes into account the Kenya Government return programme in which the Government claims that some 172,000 people during the post-election violence of December 2007 have returned home in May 2008. By its own admission, the Government confessed in early June 2008 that it has no acurate figures of IDPs. . However, it is assumed that most of IDPs are still to return and are either living in host communities or in the so called 'transit camps' that the government set up closer to where people were displaced from. |
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| Liberia |
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Undetermined (UNHCR, 24 July 2007) |
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Undetermined |
Approximately 23,000 individuals are believed to remain in former IDP camps. Of these some 16,000 received a return package but either did not use it or went back to the camps while some 7,000 claim to have been wrongly denied assistance. According to the government all IDPs have achieved durable solutions. |
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| Niger |
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11,000 (IRIN, 10 December 2007) |
Around 6500 IDPs |
This figure is based on the estimated return of approx 4,500 IDPs to the town of Iferouane. |
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| Nigeria |
1,210,000 (National Commission for Refugees, September 2007) |
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Undetermined |
No reliable statistics exist on IDPs in Nigeria nor a general agreement on their actual numbers in the absence of any comprehensive survey. Last UN estimate was 200,000 in Nov. 2004, but also based on guesswork. NCR figure does not clearly differentiate between people still displaced and those who have returned. During periodic outbreaks of violence most IDPs stay with host families; no camps currently exist. |
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| Republic of Congo |
7,800 |
7,800 (OCHA, November 2006) |
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Up to 7,800 |
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| Rwanda |
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| Senegal |
10,000 (US DoS, March 2010) |
24,000 (OCHA/ UNICEF, February 2010) |
40,000 (ICRC, March 2010) |
10,000 -40,000 |
Compiled from various figures available. |
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| Somalia |
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1,500,000 (UNHCR/ UNOCHA, January 2010) |
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1.6 million (estimate) |
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| Sudan |
GoS (9 April 2010): 623,667 IDPs in Greater Khartoum and 1.5 million locally integrated IDPs (of whom 59 per cent or around 920,000 people from areas covered by CPA and the Three Areas; the rest include economic migrants and people from other parts of Sudan). |
4.1 million (UNHCR, January 2010) |
At least 4.9 million (IDMC, January 2010) |
At least 4.9 million |
The figure of 4.9 million IDPs for all of Sudan includes at least 2.7 million IDPs in Darfur, 1.7 million IDPs in the Greater Khartoum area, 450,000 IDPs in Southern Sudan, 60,000 IDPs in Southern Kordofan, and 20,000 IDPs in Abyei. No figures are available for the Eastern States and Blue Nile. |
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| Togo |
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1,500 (OCHA, Nov. 2006) |
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| Uganda |
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295,000 (UNHCR, June 2010) |
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At least 295,000 |
The UNHCR figure does not include IDPs in urban areas, or IDPs in Uganda's Karamoja region. In addition, many of the hundreds of thousands of former IDPs who have now returned to their home areas are still in the process of finding a durable solution to their plight. |
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| Zimbabwe |
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570,000 (victims of Operation Murambatsvina: UN, July 2005); 1 million (former farm workers and their families: UNDP, September 2008); 36,000 (people displaced by political violence in 2008). |
880,000 - 960,000 (Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee (ZimVAC), June 2007). This estimate is based on the fact that about 8% of the population surveyed by the ZimVAC stated that they had been "asked to move" in the past five years. |
570,000 -1,000,000 |
The UN Special Envoy for Human Settlements Issues in Zimbabwe estimated in July 2005 that 570,000 people had been made homeless by Operation Murambatsvina. A UNDP report of September 2008 estimated that over 200,000 farm workers plus their families (an estimated total of one million people) had lost their homes and livelihoods as a result of the fast-track land reform programme. No comprehensive surveys of IDPs have been done in Zimbabwe, and estimating the total number of IDPs in the country is made more difficult by the fact that a significant number of IDPs in Zimbabwe have been displaced more than once. The estimates above do not include mine workers who were made homeless by Operation Chikorokoza Chapera in late 2006 - early 2007; and people who originally benefited from land distribution under the fast-track land reform programme but who have since been evicted again from the land on which they were resettlled. Note also that while the UN uses an estimate of 36,000 for the total number of people displaced by the 2008 political violence, the number was estimated by the MDC to be as high as 200,000. |
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[1] "Global Statistics - Internally Displaced Persons - Country Figures" Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (iDMC). This table includes the most recent available figures on IDPs displaced by conflict. Please note that most of the figures are estimates. More statistics and analyses of available figures can be found in the Internal Displacement Profiles in the IDP database. An overview of global IDP estimates from 1990 to 2009 is available here. A table of country numbers from 2001 to 2009 is available here. For an analysis of current internal displacement trends, see the Global Overview. (PDF / 6.5mb)
This complete dataset is constantly updated by the iDMC. It was last retrieved by BlatantWorld.com on November.26.2010.
About the iDMC & the featured dataset: Taken from here: The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), established in 1998 by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), is the leading international body monitoring conflict-induced internal displacement worldwide. Through its work, the Centre contributes to improving national and international capacities to protect and assist the millions of people around the globe who have been displaced within their own country as a result of conflicts or human rights violations. At the request of the United Nations, the Geneva-based IDMC runs an online database providing comprehensive information and analysis on internal displacement in some 50 countries. Based on its monitoring and data collection activities, the Centre advocates for durable solutions to the plight of the internally displaced in line with international standards. The IDMC also carries out training activities to enhance the capacity of local actors to respond to the needs of internally displaced people (IDPs). In its work, the Centre cooperates with and provides support to local and national civil society initiatives.
iDMC Funding: In 2009, the iDMC had a total of US$2,900,207 worth of contributions from it's donors. View the exact donations by each donor here. iDMC enjoys the support of a wide range of donors, including the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), the UK ‘s DFID, USA‘s USAID, Australia‘s AusAID, Sweden’s SIDA, Canada’s DFAIT, the Dutch MFA, the Swiss FDFA, the European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid Office (ECHO), the Liechtenstein MFA, the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the Luxembourg MFA, the South African MFA and Stichting Vluchteling. |
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