Internally Displaced Persons – 2007

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Internally Displaced Persons – 2007

2007

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As of August 2007, some 85,000 IDPs and refugees returned back to their communities with assistance from the UN as part of the joint plan agreed to by the national and southern governments and the United Nations.1 An estimated 45,355 IDPs returned home in 2007.2 The IDMC, however, suggests that the estimated number of IDPs actually increased in 2007 to 5,800,000.3 This, however, does not suggest that efforts were not made with regards to returning IDPs. Between January 23 and early February of 2007, some 747 IDPs returned home in eight convoys. Those returnees were part of an estimated 15,000 IDPs who UNHCR helped to return under an agreement signed the previous year by the world body, Sudan’s Government of National Unity and the Government of South Sudan.4 Nevertheless, funding for humanitarian assistance, as well as a fragile security situation, hindered the return of IDPs to their communities. It was estimated that up to 160,000 people were displaced to Darfur since the beginning of 2007 alone.5

  1. “Report of the Secretary-General on the Sudan,” United Nations (S/2007/500), August 20, 2007.
  2. “Sudan IDP & Refugee Returns,” Reintegration Operations Statistical Overview, accessed October 26, 2011, http://www.internal-displacement.org/8025708F004CE90B/(httpDocuments)/FEED5CE5022A706CC125753E003F3046/$file/Returns_RRR-Jan09.pdf.
  3. “Internal displacement caused by conflict and violence,” IDMC, 2011, accessed January 24, 2012, http://www.internal-displacement.org/IDMC_IDP-figures_2001-2010.pdf.
  4. “Sudan; UN-Aided Return of Displaced Persons to Blue Nile State Gathers Pace,” Africa News, February 13, 2007.
  5. “Sudan; Over 160,000 Have Been Displaced since January,” Africa News, October 9, 2007.