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Sudan


Country Statistics  
Latest IDP figure:
Number of refugees:
(Originating from the country)
523,032 (UNHCR, June 2008)
Total Population:
36,23 million
12 October 2007

Outlook for IDPs remains bleak


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Displaced people in Aweil,
southern Sudan (IDMC,
May 2006).
In southern Sudan, around 140,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) returned to their homes in the first six months of 2007, adding to more than one million IDPs estimated to have returned since the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) between the central government and the southern-based Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army. The CPA marked the end of the 20-year civil war estimated to have caused the death of up to two million people and the internal displacement of up to four million.

Despite improved security, a number of unfulfilled provisions, such as the withdrawal of central government troops from a contested oil-rich border area, may still lead to renewed war and displacement.

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Previous Profile updates

Recent Reports 
Major displacements in Darfur: 1 Jan 2008 - 4 August 2008, United Nations Country Team in Sudan, 12 August 2008
Darfur Humanitarian Profile No. 32, Office of the UN Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Sudan, July 2008
Abyei displacement - OCHA Situation Report No. 14, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA), 3 June 2008
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