admin October 25th, 2009
On Friday last week the African Union (AU) adopted a new convention that will provide legal protection and assistance to millions of people displaced within their own countries by conflicts and natural calamities on the continent. All good stuff, but will it be more than window dressing, and will it make any real difference to the lives of the IDPs?
admin October 16th, 2009
According to a report published yesterday on IRIN, Africa hosts at least 11 million of the world’s 25 million conflict-affected internally displaced people (IDPs) and millions more are displaced annually by natural disasters.
For example, Sudan has an estimated 4-5 million IDPs, thanks to the recent civil war in the south, and violence in Darfur and the east.
admin September 21st, 2009
With 500,000+ suffering from flooding in West Africa, East Africa is now facing drought and hunger, brought on by a combination of war and the failure of the rains.
There are already nearly 20m people in the region dependent on food aid and the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is forecasting that this number will increase.
