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Côte d'Ivoire: Quest for durable solutions continues as the electoral process moves forward

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Returnee women and children in the department of Bloléquin. Although they were able to return to their village, access to their plantations remains uncertain (Barbara McCallin/IDMC, July 2008).
Côte d’Ivoire: IDPs face eviction from camps (21 October 2011)

According to the camp coordination and camp management cluster in Côte d’Ivoire, IDPs currently living in 12 IDP sites are at risk of eviction. At the beginning of October, some 24,000 IDPs were still in some 35 sites across the country, mainly in Abidjan and the west, due to the lack alternative housing and their fear of inter-ethnic reprisals. They have been under increasing pressure to leave as private owners try to reclaim their property. IDPs who have already been evicted from privately-owned sites have sought refuge with hosts.

Heightened inter-community tensions and land disputes have limited the viability of returns and have also caused further displacements. 22 per cent of displaced people interviewed for a study by CARE, OXFAM and the Danish Refugee Council expressed an intention not to return to their place of origin, because their home had been destroyed, it was still not safe, they had endured trauma there or could not reclaim their land. They had, however, little or no idea of alternatives available to them.



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Internal Displacement Profile

"Résumé du Profil en Français","Résumé du Profil en Français"
"Causes and Background","Background","Peace efforts","Main causes of displacement"
"Population Figures and Profile","Global figures","Geographical distribution","Disaggregated data"
"Patterns of Displacement","General"
"Physical Security & Freedom of Movement","Physical security","Freedom of movement"
"Subsistence Needs","General","Health","Food","Shelter","Water and Sanitation"
"Access to Education","General"
"Issues of Self-Reliance and Public Participation","Self-reliance","Public participation"
"Documentation Needs and Citizenship","General"
"Property Issues","General"
"Patterns of Return and Resettlement","General"
"National and International Responses","National response","International response","References to the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement"

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IDMC reports  
   
  • Whose land is this? Land disputes and forced displacement in the western forest area of Côte d’Ivoire, October 2009 (En | Fr )
  • Tufts-IDMC study on Abidjan,2008 (En | Fr )