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Internally Displaced Persons – 1998

The Government of Angola and UNITA were at war in 1998 and tens of thousands fled from the violence in the countryside. From April to June, there was a “rapid increase in the number of newly displaced persons, as a result of the high level of insecurity.”¹

The United Nations Observer Mission in Angola (MONUA) reported in November of 1998 that the number of internally displaced persons in Angola had tripled in the last three months to 331,000 new IDPs.²

The Uppsala Conflict Data Program coded the conflict between the Angolan government and UNITA as reaching the threshold of “war” in 1998 with over 1000 total deaths in the year. Coding for this case stops December 31, 1998.

1. “Report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Observer Mission in Angola (MONUA),” U.N. Security Council (S/1998/524), June 17, 1998.
2. “Report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Observer Mission in Angola (MONUA),” U.N. Security Council (S/1998/1110), November 23, 1998.