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Birkey and her son at a site for the internally displaced by conflict in Tigray Ethiopia photo by Demissew Bizuwerk 2021
Residents of Sake – given 72 hours by M23 rebels to leave camps in Goma – find a ghost town with homes in ruins and no way to make a living
Residents of Sake – given 72 hours by M23 rebels to leave camps in Goma – find a ghost town with homes in ruins and no way to make a living Congolese people forced to return to their home town from displacement camps when the M23 rebel group advanced on the city of Goma earlier this year have described scenes of devastation, with hundreds of homes destroyed by fighting and no opportunity to work or access aid. As M23 entered Goma, a regional humanitarian hub that hosted hundreds of thousands of people displaced by previous rounds of fighting in the region, more than 100,000 people left camps around the city to return to their homes. According to humanitarian agencies, M23 – who suspected that rival armed groups were hiding in the camps – gave people a 72-hour ultimatum to leave. M23 said it had called only for voluntary returns, arguing that territory it had taken over during its advance was now safe. As of early February, more than 42,000 returnees were recorded in Masisi territory. That represented at least 40% of previously displaced households. In the town of Sake, which sits at a strategically important location on a crossroads, providing good access to large population centres and which was the scene of intense fighting in early January, former residents who were forced to return found a ghost town, with houses destroyed or vandalised.
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Conflicts, wars, and other geopolitical crises around the world have left millions of people without a country. They are called “the stateless," and their plight is finally being recognized by the Biden administration. Stephanie Sy reports.
Cameroon's CAR Refugees Reluctant To Return Home
Cameroon's CAR Refugees Reluctant To Return Home #ANNnews
Cameroon says only a tiny fraction of the 285,000 Central African Republic (CAR) refugees in the country have agreed to return to their country saying they do not feel safe enough to return home. A February peace deal and months of negotiations with Cameroon and the United Nations refugee agency have not done much to instill confidence in them to do so.
CAR has been rocked by violence since 2013…
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Ten million people internally displaced by conflict in 2018: monitors
Ten million people internally displaced by conflict in 2018: monitors
Conflict forced more than 10 million people to flee their homes to live elsewhere within their own country last year, bringing the total number of people internally displaced by violence to a record high, monitors said Friday.
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The new figure brings the total number of people currently living in internal displacement due to violence to 41.3 million, an all-time high, according to a report by…
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BEIRUT | Thousands back home in north Syria after Russia-Turkey deal
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BEIRUT | Thousands back home in north Syria after Russia-Turkey deal
BEIRUT— Thousands of people who were recently displaced by violence in northwest Syria have returned home following a Russia-Turkey deal that averted a government offensive on the last major rebel stronghold, Syrian opposition activists said Wednesday.
The United Nations said that in the first 12 days of September, over 38,000 people were internally displaced by an intense government aerial bombing campaign in Idlib and neighboring provinces. Most of them headed toward the border with Turkey, packing already overcrowded camps there, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said.
It said over 4,500 are estimated to have spontaneously returned to their homes shortly afterward when government bombardment stopped.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that some 7,000 people have returned to their towns and villages since Monday when Russia and Turkey announced the deal.
Syria-based opposition activist Yazan Mohammed said the flow of people back to their homes started days before Monday’s deal was announced between Russia and Turkey as residents were expecting it.
The demilitarized zone will be established by Oct. 15 and be 15-20 kilometers (9-12 miles) deep, with troops from Russia and NATO-member Turkey conducting coordinated patrols. Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said the agreement would allow civilians and Turkey-backed anti-government rebels to remain in the demilitarized zone and “retain light arms.”
Idlib is home to some of the government’s staunchest opponents, including civilians and insurgents.
Insurgent groups include al-Qaida-linked Hayat Tahrir al-Sham — or Levant Liberation Committee — the Turkistan Islamic Party and Horas al-Din, or Guardians of Religion.
Speaking against the deal, some in Idlib said they feared it would pave the way for a massive attack.
The Observatory said some hard-line groups including Guardians of Religion and the Soldiers of God, rejected the deal and said they will not withdraw from the demilitarized zone. The groups warned that they will fight any side that will try to disarm or remove them from the planned demilitarized zone, the Observatory said.
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Iraq’s Diyala: More than 30,000 students back to schools in ISIS-free areas
Iraq’s Diyala: More than 30,000 students back to schools in ISIS-free areas
Iraqi internally displaced children stand outside their muddy tent after heavy rainy at a camp for internally displaced persons in Youssifiyah, 12 miles (20 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016.
More than 30,000 students, who were internally displaced, have now returned to schools after the areas in which their homes were located were liberated more than a year and a half…
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