Internally Displaced Persons – 2000

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Internally Displaced Persons – 2000

2000

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Over 800,000 people were displaced in the Republic of Congo as of 1998.1 As soon as the accords were signed in November and December 1999, displaced individuals started to return to their communities. Nevertheless, by the end of 1999, there were still 650,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs).2 With the termination of conflict, the Republic of Congo faced a humanitarian crisis. Those displaced had never received humanitarian support.3

By the end of 2000, the number of IDPs had declined to 125,000.4

  1. Robert Muggah, “The Anatomy of Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration in the Republic of Congo,” Conflict, Security & Development 4(1): 21-37 (2004): 22.
  2. Ibid., 22.
  3. “End to civil war in Republic of Congo creates humanitarian crisis,” Associated Press, February 24, 2000.
  4. Robert Muggah, “The Anatomy of Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration in the Republic of Congo.”