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Group of internally displaced persons arrives in Munigi, Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2013 The Kampala Convention (formally, the African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa) is a treaty of the African Union (AU) that addresses internal displacement caused by armed conflict, natural disasters and large-scale development projects in ...
Middle East and North Africa. 0.4 million. Americas. 0.2 million. An internally displaced person (IDP) is someone who is forced to leave their home but who remains within their country's borders. [1] They are often referred to as refugees, although they do not fall within the legal definitions of a refugee.
The issue has been ongoing for many years, with millions of displaced persons forced from their homes, often repeatedly. [3] The term internally displaced persons (IDPs) refers to movements of people within the DRC, which are a distinct population from refugees who fled to the DRC from other countries, such as the 1.2 million Rwandan refugees ...
Refugees, mainly displaced people from Somalia, were either forced to relocate to Kakuma, repatriated or remunerated to voluntarily relocate into unsafe areas in Somalia. [53] Other closed camps in the area include Liboi, Oda, Walda, Thika, Utange and Marafa. Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya was opened in 1991. In 2014, it was the third largest ...
Jolie, who worked with the U.N.'s refugee agency in multiple positions between 2001 and 2022, wrote on Instagram that the conflict in Sudan has left more than 10 million displaced within the ...
Lost Boys of Sudan. School children in Kakuma camp, Kenya. The Lost Boys of Sudan refers to a group of over 20,000 boys of the Nuer and Dinka ethnic groups who were displaced or orphaned during the Second Sudanese Civil War (1987–2005). Two million were killed and others were severely affected by the conflict. [1]
A widespread famine affected Ethiopia from 1983 to 1985. [4] The worst famine to hit the country in a century, [5] it affected 7.75 million people (out of Ethiopia 's 38–40 million) and left approximately 300,000 to 1.2 million dead. 2.5 million people were internally displaced whereas 400,000 refugees left Ethiopia.
Internally displaced people from Southern Cameroons, in Douala, Cameroon, March 2020. By January 2018, 15,000 people had fled from Southern Cameroons to Nigeria. [12] This number increased to at least 40,000 people by February. [416] By August 2018, more than 180,000 people had been displaced due to the war. [417]