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Internally Displaced Persons – 1999

Internal displacement remained very high as parties repeatedly violated the ceasefire. After the ousting of President Joao Bernardo Vieira in July, the situation gradually improved. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reported that an estimated 215,000 IDPs returned to their homes.¹

1. “2003 UNHCR Statistical Yearbook – Guinea-Bissau,” UNHCR, accessed 2005, http://www.unhcr.org/41d2c172c.html.