16. Afghanistan Region (see Map 16)
17. Bhutanese Refugees in Nepal (see Map 17)
18. Refugees from Rakhine State, Myanmar in Bangladesh (see Map 18)
19. Southern Iraq
The most recent overview of the numbers of refugees and displaced people in Asia (as of the end of 1995) is as follows. There were an estimated 4.5 million refugees in Asia, of whom over 800,000 were Afghans in Pakistan and in Iran (1.5 million). There were reported to be 600,000 Iraqis in Iran. Other large groups were refugees from Myanmar in Bangladesh (36,000), Vietnamese in China (286,000), and Bhutanese in Nepal (90,000). No comprehensive data were available on the numbers of internally displaced populations in Asia, but they were certainly in the millions (UNHCR, 1995 Populations of Concern to UNHCR').
This section of the report aims to give updated information on some of these situations. The current situation for the Afghan refugees/displaced populations, the largest single group in Asia with approximately three million affected people, is described. Available information on the Bhutanese refugees in Nepal and refugees from Myanmar in Bangladesh are included because of previous reports of micronutrient deficiencies. As in the past, we also include information on Southern Iraqi refugees in Iran.
Fighting is continuing in various locations outside of Kabul and has reportedly led to fresh population displacements. For example, it is estimated that 30,000 new arrivals in Pakistan require emergency aid, and a further 90,000 people are said to have fled fighting in the north of Afghanistan and have moved to Kabul. The capital has also been under attack with several bombing and rocket attacks carried out by opposition forces resulting in a number of civilian mortalities. It is estimated that 1.5 million people in Afghanistan require emergency food aid. There are at least a further 900,000 Afghan refugees in Pakistan, 350,000 of whom are believed to require assistance, and 1.4 million in Iran, 322,000 of whom require assistance [ABC 28/01/97, WFP 31/01/97, 10/02/97, DHA 14/01/97].
Kabul The population in Kabul continues to swell due to the arrival of people newly displaced by fighting north of the city. Most recent estimates are of at least 115,000 new arrivals. Although many of the IDPs are staying with relatives, others are living in schools and other public buildings. Many of these are overcrowded. There is reportedly a major food shortage in the whole Kabul region. Food prices have recently risen by 25%. This, coupled with the severe winter weather has resulted in increasing numbers of Afghan people relying on the international community to survive. There are now thousands of destitute people in the capital who are being targeted with food and non-food relief items. It is estimated that at least one fifth of the city's population are poverty stricken. The disabled, war widows and orphans are considered to be the most vulnerable groups. Humanitarian operations have restarted in many areas, after a suspension due to restrictions placed on women by the Taliban. For example, provision of subsidised bread through the capital's bakeries has been re-introduced [DHA 22/01/97, 13/02/97, 25/02/97, ICRC 22/01/97, WFP 03/01/97).
Jalalabad Earlier in 1996, a nutritional survey carried out in Jalalabad City showed 4.5% wasting with 0.4% severe wasting. In the camps for internally displaced people (population estimated at 150,000) wasting was measured at 3.3% with 0.3% severe wasting (see Annex 1 16(a,b)). While this is not a particularly recent survey, anecdotal reports are that the situation has remained stable over the past six months, and that existing programmes are coping with the influx of people from Kabul. The provision of a full general ration for IDPs in Jalalabad was stopped in June 1995 and replaced with a monthly 50 kg ration of wheat for each family. This provides on average less than 1,200 kcals/person/day. The low levels of wasting in the camps therefore indicate that this population have other sources of food and income apart from the wheat ration. [WHO July 1996].
Survey carried out in other camps for internally displaced people outside of Kabul and excluding Jalalabad showed low levels of wasting varying from 3.4-5.8% (see Annex I 16(c-e)) [MSF-H 05/03/97].
Pakistan Fighting between government and Taliban forces in Afghanistan has led to an influx of at least 30,000 people into Pakistan. Conditions for these new arrivals are described as "harsh"; more than 1,000 families are said to be living in the open, without shelter, food or warm clothes [DHA 29/01/97].
Iran There are no reports of change for the 322,000 Afghan refugees requiring assistance in Iran.
Overall, an estimated 20% of the population of Kabul who are thought to be poverty-stricken are in category IIa in Table I. The remaining population in Kabul, along with the new arrivals in Pakistan can be considered to be at moderate nutritional risk (category IIb in Table 1). The remaining refugees in Pakistan, along with those in Iran and internally displaced people outside of Kabul are not currently considered to be at heightened nutritional risk (category IIc in Table 1).
How could external agencies help? Humanitarian agencies must continue to argue for gender equality in Taliban controlled locations, particularly in education and work opportunities as this policy now seems to be paying off. Agencies must also focus efforts on improving the water supply and sanitation conditions in Kabul, as this is a major cause of health problems in the city. There is also a need to establish a national nutritional surveillance system in order to monitor nutritional conditions throughout the country more effectively.
There are approximately 92,000 Bhutanese refugees and asylum-seekers who sought refuge in Nepal in the early 1990s. The total number of refugees in the camps has increased slightly due to births and a few new arrivals, mainly family members of refugees. There is reportedly no change in the nutritional status of this population. Most recent reports are of low levels of wasting; however, some new cases of scurvy, beri-beri and angular stomatitis continue to be reported [UNHCR 26/02/97].
There are approximately 24,000 refugees from Rakhine State, Myanmar remaining in Bangladesh. Repatriation is continuing, and is expected to be completed early in 1997 [UNHCR 04/03/97].
The last RNIS described a precarious situation for these refugees, with increasing incidence of diarrhoea, and levels of wasting of 15%. Supplementary feeding programmes have now been established in response to these high levels of wasting [UNHCR 04/03/97].
The distribution of a fortified blended food (CSB), which is a usual part of the general ration, was discontinued due to questions over it's suitability for human consumption. Although it's suitability has now been demonstrated, CSB is still not being distributed. The general ration is therefore low in calories and micronutrients. This is particularly worrying for this population as micronutrient deficiency diseases, specifically vitamin B2 deficiency seen as angular stomatitis, has been endemic amongst this population.
Overall, this population can be considered to be at high nutritional risk (category IIa in Table 1) due to elevated levels of wasting and a low intake of micronutrients.
Reports have been received on a regular basis depicting the desperate state of the approximately 200,000 Marsh Arabs in Southern Iraq (RNIS # 1,3,4,6,10,11,12,15/). These people have been deprived of their livelihoods, their habitats have been destroyed, and they have been forced to endure arbitrary detention, arrests, torture and execution [UNHCHR 12/12/96].
The government of Iraq has been called upon repeatedly to halt discriminatory practices that, inter alia, restrict access to food and health care in the southern areas of the country [UNHCHR 23/04/96, 12/12/96].
The recent agreement on the sale of oil to purchase food and medicines for humanitarian purposes pursuant to Security Council resolution 986, may provide an opportunity to obtain more information on the plight of this highly vulnerable population. If UN observers are given freedom of movement throughout the country, it should be possible to begin monitoring the conditions amongst the Marsh Arabs.
How could external agencies help? The agreement reached on Security Council Resolution 986 allowing for the sale of oil to purchase humanitarian goods may provide a window of opportunity to assess the health and nutritional status of the Marsh Arabs. Free movement of UN monitors will be essential for ensuring the equitable distribution of humanitarian goods within the country, and that the traditionally neglected Marsh Arabs are able to reap the benefits of this programme.
Listing of Sources for March 1997 RNIS Report #19
|
Org* |
Date |
Title of Report |
|
|
ACF |
Dec. 96 |
Nutritional Survey Dislaced and Resident People Freetown,
Sierra Leone |
|
|
ACF |
08.12.96 |
Anthropometric Nutritional Survy in Mongola Settlement Moyo
District, N. Uganda |
|
|
ACF |
10.01.97 |
Evaluation Nutritionnelle Rapide sur le Site de
Rukana |
|
|
ACF |
31.01.97 |
Enquete Anthropometrique Realisee sur le Centre
Medico-Nutritionnel de Maramvya |
|
|
Australian Broadcasting Co (ABC) |
28.01.97 |
UN Says 90 Thousand Afghans Have Fled Fighting in the
North |
|
|
CONCERN |
06.12.96 |
Nutriton Survey Results for Segbwema, Sierra Leone July 1996
and Dec 1996 |
|
|
DHA |
1997 |
Inter-Agency Consolidated Appeal for Sudan |
|
|
DHA |
16.12.96 |
UN Consolidated Inter-Agency Appeal for Somalia |
|
|
DHA |
14.01.97 |
Afghanistan Weekly Update No. 200 |
|
|
DHA |
15.01.97 |
Liberia Humanitarian Situation Report No. 54 |
|
|
DHA |
15.01.97 |
Somalia Bi-Monthly Information Report |
|
|
DHA |
29.01.97 |
Afghanistan Weekly Update, Issue No. 201 |
|
|
DHA |
31.01.97 |
Update on Angola |
|
|
DHA |
05.02.97 |
Liberia Humanitarian Situation Report No. 57 |
|
|
DHA |
12.02.97 |
Burundi - Huamnitarian situation Report No. 3 |
|
|
DHA |
13.02.97 |
Afghanistan Weekly Update No. 204 |
|
|
DHA |
21.02.97 |
Mozambique Floods - Situation Report No. 1 |
|
|
DHA |
25.02.97 |
Afghanistan Weekly Update, Issue No. 205 |
|
|
|
|
Health and Nutritional Situation of the Rwandan and Burundese
Refugees in Tingi- |
|
|
EPICENTRE |
15.01.97 |
Tingi, Eastern Zaire |
|
|
|
|
-Health and Nutritional Situation of the Rwandan and Burundese
Refugees in Tingi- |
|
|
EPICENTRE |
06.02.97 |
Tingi, Eastern Zaire |
|
|
FAO |
19.12.96 |
FAO/WFP Crop and Food Supply Assessment Mission to
Sudan |
|
|
FAO |
23.12.96 |
FAO/WFP Crop and Food Supply Assessment Mission to
Rwanda |
|
|
FAO |
03.01.97 |
FAO Crop and Food Supply Assessment Mission to
Liberia |
|
|
FAO |
15.01.97 |
FAO/WFP Crop and Food Supply Assessment Mission to Sierra
Leone |
|
|
FSAU |
23.12.96 |
Preliminary Results of the 1996/97 Crop reduction
Evaluation |
|
|
ICRC |
22.01.97 |
Afghanistan: A Little Poorer Every Day |
|
|
IFRC |
11.02.97 |
Kenya: Somali Refugees Situation Report No. 4 |
|
|
IRIN |
06.02.96 |
Emergency Update #95 on the Great Lakes |
|
|
IRIN |
07.01.97 |
Emergency Update #73 on the Great Lakes |
|
|
IRIN |
09.01.97 |
Emergency Update #75 on the Great Lakes |
|
|
IRIN |
16.01.97 |
Emergency Update #80 on the Great Lakes |
|
|
IRIN |
24.01.97 |
Emergency Update #86 on the Great Lakes |
|
|
IRIN |
05.02.97 |
Emergency Update #94 on the Great Lakes |
|
|
IRIN |
07.02.97 |
Emergency Update #96 on the Great Lakes |
|
|
IRIN |
12.02.97 |
Emergency Update #101 on the Great Lakes |
|
|
IRIN |
26.02.97 |
Emergency Update #109 on the Great Lakes |
|
|
IRIN |
04.03.97 |
Emergency Update #116 on the Great Lakes |
|
|
IRIN |
08-10.02.97 |
Emergency Update #97 on the Great Lakes |
|
|
IRIN |
11-13.01.97 |
Emergency Update #76 on the Great Lakes |
|
|
IRIN |
18-20.01.97 |
Emergency Update #82 on the Great Lakes |
|
|
MSF-B |
31.01.97 |
Emergency Nutritional Intervention Dadaab Refugee
Camps |
|
|
MSF-CIS |
Dec.96 |
Bulletin of the Nutritional Situation |
|
|
MSF-H |
05.03.97 |
Survey Results |
|
|
MSF-S |
31.12.97 |
Nutritional Evaluation Nutritional Survey Nyarugusu camp for
Zairian Refugees |
|
|
OLS |
23.01.97 |
OLS Emergency Update No. 2 |
|
|
OLS |
28.01.97 |
OLS Southern Sector Update 97/4 |
|
|
OLS |
04.02.97 |
OLS Southern Sector Update 97/5 |
|
|
SCF-UK |
Oct. 96 |
Household Food Economy Analysis Kakumu Refugee Camp,
Kenya |
|
|
SFC-UK |
Oct. 96 |
Household Food Economy Analysis Kebri Beyah Refugee Camp,
Ethiopia |
|
|
UN |
20.02.97 |
Report of the Secretary General on Sierra Leone |
|
|
UNHCHR |
23.04.96 |
Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Iraq |
|
|
UNHCHR |
12.12.96 |
Situation of Human Rights in Iraq |
|
|
UNHCR |
Dec.96 |
Monthly Situation Report- Health and Nutrition Sector Dec
1996 |
|
|
UNHCR |
05.12.96 |
Review of Nutrition Epidemiology |
|
|
UNHCR |
17.01.97 |
Sierra Leone Briefing Notes |
|
|
UNHCR |
28.01.97 |
Monthly Health Bulliten (Eastern Sudan) |
|
|
UNHCR |
18.02.97 |
UNHCR starts repatriation of Somali refugees in
Ethiopia |
|
|
UNHCR |
22.02.97 |
Personal Communication - Tanzania |
|
|
UNHCR |
24.02.97 |
Update on Emergency Preparedness and Response |
|
|
UNHCR |
26.02.97 |
Personal Communication - Nepal |
|
|
UNHCR |
27.02.97 |
Food Supply for Dadaab Camps. Kenya |
|
|
UNHCR |
27.02.97 |
Personal Communication - Benin/Ghana/Togo, CAR,
Zambia |
|
|
UNHCR |
07.03.97 |
Personal Communication - Uganda |
|
|
UNICEF |
06.02.97 |
Update No. 41 on Great Lakes Region |
|
|
USAID |
17.01.97 |
Great Lakes Complex Emergency Situation Report #18 |
|
|
USAID |
07.02.97 |
Great Lakes Complex Emergency Situation Report #21 |
|
|
USAID |
14.02.97 |
Great Lakes - Complex Emergency Situation Report #22 |
|
|
WFP |
03.01.97 |
Weekly Update |
|
|
WFP |
10.01.97 |
Weekly Update |
|
|
WFP |
17.01.97 |
Weekly Update |
|
|
WFP |
24.01.97 |
Weekly Update |
|
|
WFP |
31.01.97 |
Weekly Update |
|
|
WFP |
04.02.97 |
Food Aid for Malian Refugees |
|
|
WFP |
04.02.97 |
Weekly Update |
|
|
WFP |
07.02.97 |
Weekly Update |
|
|
WFP |
10.02.97 |
Emergency and Protracted Relief Operations |
|
|
WFP |
11.02.97 |
Personal Communication - Kenya |
|
|
WFP |
14.02.97 |
Weekly Update |
|
|
WFP |
21.02.97 |
Weekly Update |
|
|
WFP |
28.02.97 |
Weekly Update |
|
|
WFP-a |
07.02.97 |
Eastern Zaire Situation Report #44 |
|
|
WFP-a |
07.02.97 |
Food Assistance for Somali and Sudanese Refugees
(Kenya) |
|
|
WFP-b |
07.02.97 |
Food Assistance for Somali and Sudanese Refugees
(Kenya) |
|
|
|
|
Comparative Malnutrition Survey in Jalalabad City and
Internally Displaced People |
|
|
WHO |
Jul. 96 |
Camps in Nangarhar Province |
|
|
WV |
16.01.97 |
Liberia Weekly Report 12-16 Jan 1997 |
|
|
* Org |
|
|
ACF |
Action Centre la Faim |
|
Al |
Amnesty International |
|
BAAG |
British Agencies Afghanistan Group |
|
CONCERN |
|
|
DHA |
Department of Humanitarian Affairs |
|
FAO |
Food & Agricultural Organization of the United
Nations |
|
FSAU |
Food Security Assessment Unit for Somalia |
|
GOAL |
|
|
ICRC |
International Committee of Red Cross |
|
IFRC |
International Federation of Red Cross |
|
IRIN |
Integrated Regional Information Network (of DHA) |
|
MSF-B |
Medecins Sans Frontieres - Belgium |
|
MSF-CIS |
Medecins Sans Frontieres - Celula Inter-Seccoes |
|
MSF-F |
Medecins Sans Frontieres - France |
|
MSF-H |
Medecins Sans Frontieres - Holland |
|
MSF-S |
Medecins Sans Frontieres - Spain |
|
OLS |
Operation Lifeline Sudan |
|
SCF- UK |
Save the Children Fund (United Kingdom) |
|
UNAA |
United Nations Humanitarian Assistance for
Afghanistan |
|
UNHRCS |
United Nations Humanitarian and Resident Coordinator for
Somalia |
|
UNECOSOC |
United Nations Economic and Social Council |
|
UNHCHR |
United Nation's High Commissioner for Human Rights |
|
UNHCR |
United Nation's High Commission on Refugees |
|
UNICEF |
United Nation's Children Fund |
|
WFP |
World Food Programme |
|
WHO |
World Health Organization |
|
WV |
World Vision |
Table 1: Information Available on Total Refugee/Displaced Populations (as of March 1997)
|
Situation |
Population Numbers |
Nutr |
Comments |
||||||
|
Condition |
Total
|
Change from Dec.96 |
|||||||
|
I: High |
IIa: High |
IIb: Mod |
IIc: Not |
III: Unknown |
|||||
|
Prev |
Risk |
Risk |
Critical |
||||||
|
Sub-Saharan Africa |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1. Angola |
|
|
|
980'000 |
|
90'000 |
395'000 |
imp |
Decreased total due to some attaining self- sufficiency and/or
IDPs returning home |
|
2. Banin/Ghana/Togo Region |
|
|
|
13'500 |
|
13'500 |
19'500 |
stat |
Decreased total due to repartition. |
|
3. Burkina Faso/Mauritania |
|
|
25'000 |
25'000 |
|
50'000 |
- 3'000 |
sat |
Decreased total due to repatriation Those in Mauritania at
moderate risk due to pressure on resources in cam |
|
4. Burundi /Rwanda Region |
199'300 |
712'000 |
2'698'700 |
233'000 |
|
3'043'000 |
929'500 |
del |
Increased total due to population displacements In Zaire and Burundi
and food insecurity in Rwanda. |
|
5. Central African Republic |
|
|
|
32'400 |
|
32'400 |
400 |
Stat |
Increase due to a small influx of Sudanese refugees coming
from Eastern Zaire. |
|
6. Djibouti |
|
|
|
2'500 |
|
2'500 |
0 |
Stat |
|
|
7. Ethiopia |
|
287'000 |
5'800 |
109'700 |
130'000 |
532'500 |
135'800 |
Stat |
Increase total due to a new influx from Sudan. Kenya and Somalia |
|
8. Kenya |
130'000 |
|
16'000 |
20'000 |
|
166'000 |
- 1'000 |
Oil |
High levels of wasting and some micronutrient deficiency diseases
being seen among the Somali refugees. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Very high levels of anaemia seen among adolescent boys in Sudanese
refugee camps |
|
9. Liberia/Sierra Leone/ |
|
|
1'317'000 |
1'171'300 |
|
2'489'000 |
- 761'000 |
imp |
Decreased number due to the attainment of self-sufficiency of many. |
|
Guinea/Cote d'Ivoire |
|
|
|
|
|
0 |
|
|
|
|
10. Mozambique Region |
|
|
|
162'600 |
|
162'600 |
92'600 |
imp |
The increase due to more people needing assistance as the harvest
in April 1997 approaches. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pockets of malnutrition due a long-term insecurity and flooding may
exist. |
|
11. Somalia |
|
|
300'000 |
|
|
300'000 |
150'000 |
del |
Far greater numbers an likely to require emergency food assistance,
especially in large urban centres and crop deficit areas. |
|
12. Sudan |
4'000 |
|
2'790'800 |
|
|
2'794'800 |
617'800 |
stat |
Pockets of malnutrition are likely to exist in Southern Sudan Critical
situation in Red Sea persists |
|
13. Uganda |
|
425'000 |
|
23'300 |
20'000 |
468'300 |
38'500 |
del |
Increased number Rwandan and Zarean refueges in Uganda. IDPs, and
Sudanese refugees at heightened at |
|
14. Zaire |
260'000 |
|
|
156'000 |
|
416'000 |
0 |
del/stat |
For displaced from Shaba in Mwene Ditu, nutritional status based on
most recent survey data (end 1995) No indications of change |
|
15. Zambia |
|
|
|
32'000 |
|
32'000 |
5'000 |
stat |
Increase due to new arrivals from Eastern Zaire |
|
Total (Sub-Saharan Africa) |
593'300 |
1'424'000 |
7'154'000 |
2'961'300 |
150'000 |
12'282'600 |
790'100 |
|
|
|
Asia (Selected Situation) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
16. Afghanistan Region |
|
210'000 |
520'000 |
1'452'000 |
|
2'182'000 |
- 648'000 |
stat |
Decrease in numbers requiring assistance in Iran and Pakistan |
|
17. Bhutanese Refugees in Nepal |
|
|
|
92'000 |
|
92'000 |
2'000 |
stat |
A proportion of the population may be at high risk due to micronutrient
deficiency diseases. |
|
18. Bangladesh |
|
24'000 |
|
|
|
24'000 |
- 12'000 |
imp |
decreased total due to repatriation. Those remaining in the camps
at hightened risk due to elevated levels |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
0 |
|
|
of wasting and the presence of micronutrient deficiencies. |
|
19. Southern Iraq |
|
192'000 |
|
28'000 |
|
220'000 |
0 |
del |
Those in Marshes considered at high risk. |
I: Hgh Prev- Those reported with high prevalenoes of malnutrition (where available >20% wasting) and/or micronutrient deficiency diseasees and sharply elevated mortality rates (at least 3x normal)
IIa. High Risk - At high nutritional risk, limited data available, population likely to contain pockets of malnutrition (e.g. wasting).
IIb: Mod Risk - Moderate risk, may be data available, pockets of malnutrition may existIIc: Not Critical - Probably not at heightened nutritional risk
III: Unknown - No information on nutritional status available
*Indicates status of nutritional situation. Imp = improving; det = deteriorating; stat = static (i.e. no change).
Table 2: Summary of Origin and Location of Major Populations of Refugees, Returnees and Displaced People in Africa
March 1996 · RNIS #19 (population estimates In thousands)
|
From |
To/In |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Angola |
Benin |
Burkina Faso |
Burundi |
Cote d'Ivoire |
Eritrea |
Ethiopia |
Ghana |
Guinea |
Kenya |
Liberia |
Mali |
Mauritania |
Mozambique |
Rwanda |
Sierra Leone |
Somalia |
Sudan |
Tanzania |
Togo |
Uganda |
Zaire |
Zambia |
Total |
|
|
Angola |
980 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
50 |
26 |
1'056 |
|
Benin |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
0 |
|
Burkina Faso |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
0 |
|
Burundi |
|
|
|
300 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
79 |
|
627 |
|
Cote d'Ivoire |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
248 |
|
|
|
|
0 |
|
Eritrea |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
121 |
|
Ethiopia |
|
|
|
|
|
|
11 |
|
|
4 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
121 |
|
|
|
|
|
32 |
|
Ghana |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
17 |
|
|
|
|
|
10 |
|
Guinea |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
10 |
|
|
|
0 |
|
Kenya |
|
|
|
|
|
|
9 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
9 |
|
Liberia |
|
|
|
|
305 |
|
|
16 |
408 |
|
1'100 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1'829 |
|
Mali |
|
|
25 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
25 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
50 |
|
Mauritania |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
0 |
|
Mozambique |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
163 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
163 |
|
Rwanda |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2'600 |
|
|
|
|
|
15 |
388 |
|
3'003 |
|
Sierra Leone |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
128 |
|
100 |
|
|
|
|
548 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
776 |
|
Somalia |
|
|
|
|
|
|
287 |
|
|
130 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
300 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
717 |
|
Sudan |
|
|
|
|
|
|
78 |
|
|
32 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2'500 |
|
|
225 |
90 |
|
2'925 |
|
Tanzania |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
0 |
|
Togo |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
7 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
13 |
|
Uganda |
|
6 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
200 |
12 |
|
212 |
|
Zaire |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
16 |
|
|
|
96 |
|
29 |
500 |
|
641 |
|
Zambia |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
0 |
|
TOTAL |
980 |
6 |
25 |
300 |
305 |
0 |
385 |
23 |
536 |
166 |
1'200 |
0 |
25 |
163 |
2'616 |
548 |
300 |
2'638 |
344 |
10 |
469 |
1'119 |
26 |
12'184 |
(1) This chart is intended to include major population groups in Africa (i.e. over 100,000 people affected from country of origin).
(2) Boxes on the diagonal (shaded) show internally displaced populations (total = 9.2 million).(3) Numbers referred to in the text are usually by the country where the population is located (i.e. column totals).
For the regional situations of Burundi/Rwanda and Liberia/Sierra Leone the description is by country of origin (i.e. row totals).
Figure 1 - Refugee and displaced populations - Selected Areas in Africa (March 1997)
Figure 2 - Trends in Total Refugee/ Displaced Populations - by Risk Categories - Africa: December 1993 - March 1997
