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new feature of the Sudan violence in 2009 was the deliberate targeting of women
and children, who were often shot at water points, in the fields or while
collecting firewood.
SUDAN - RISING INTER-TRIBAL VIOLENCE
IN THE SOUTH & RENEWED CLASHES
IN DARFUR CAUSE NEW WAVES OF
INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT - GENDER
27 May 2010
An internally displaced woman in Pibor,
SUDAN
- As of May 2010, at least 4.9 million people are internally displaced in
Darfur, the Greater Khartoum area, South Kordofan and the ten States of
Southern Sudan, with unknown numbers of internally displaced people in the
other northern and eastern States.
They
make up one of the two largest internally displaced populations in the world,
alongside that of Colombia. Some people have been displaced for more than two
decades, while others were newly displaced in 2009 and 2010.
In Southern Sudan over 390,000 people were newly displaced in 2009, twice as
many as in 2008, and another 60,000 during the first four months of 2010. The
increase in new displacement is a consequence of heightened inter and
intra-tribal violence, attacks by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), and
conflicts between pastoralist communities; poor governance, the proliferation
of firearms and land disputes between returning IDPs, refugees and residents,
all exacerbated by drought and food shortages.
A
new feature of the violence in 2009 was the deliberate targeting of women and
children, who were often shot at water points, in the fields or while
collecting firewood.
Five years after the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) over
two million IDPs had returned to Southern Sudan by the end of 2009, but ten per
cent of returns had led to secondary displacement. The achievement of durable
solutions remains difficult due to rising insecurity and limited access to
services, livelihoods and infrastructure.
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