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A 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

 

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Website - http://www.internal-displacement.org/countries/sudan

 

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An internally displaced woman in Pibor, Southern Sudan, carrying food rations distributed by the World Food Programme and other items (Photo UN Photo/Tim McKULKA, March 2009).

 

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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