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Forced Migration Review (Issue 30, April 2008), Burma's displaced people

IDP settlement, Galkayo. (Nuur Sheekh/IDMC)

Country Profile Update Somalia: Massive displacement and humanitarian need 29 July 2008 Through 2007 and 2008, the security and humanitarian situation in Somalia has continued to deteriorate. Fighting between the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) forces and their Ethiopian allies, and insurgents including the Islamic Courts Union, has led to displacement on a scale never before witnessed in the country. Displacement caused by insecurity and conflict has continued in and around Mogadishu, with the IDP population reaching 1.1 million. (...)

Latest Country Profile Updates

• 23 July 2008
  Lebanon : Displaced, again
  Over 24,000 people, mainly Palestine refugees and a small number of Lebanese remain displaced from Nahr el-Bared camp in northern Lebanon following three months of fighting there in 2007 between Fatah al-Islam and the Lebanese army. ... more
• 14 July 2008
  Azerbaijan : IDPs still trapped in poverty and dependence
  Almost 15 years after signing a ceasefire agreement, Azerbaijan and Armenia have yet to resolve the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh. In the absence of a peace agreement, some 570,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) are still prevented from returning to their homes in Azerbaijan. ... more

Special Country Reports

• 30 June 2008
  Struggling to integrate: Displaced people from Chechnya living in other areas of the Russian Federation
  In an atmosphere of instability and violence leading up to the first separatist conflict in Chechnya in 1994, some 100,000 non-ethnic Chechens fled to other parts of the Russian Federation. ... more

Publications

• A Heavy Burden - Internally Displaced in Georgia: Stories from Abkhazia and South Ossetia (April 2008)
  A Heavy Burden, published in Georgian, Russian and English brings together 13 accounts from Georgia, Abkhazia and South Ossetia.... more
• Internal Displacement: Global Overview of Trends and Developments in 2007 (April 2008)
  Yearly report on major global and regional developments in the field of internal displacement.... more
• Activity Report 2007 (April 2008)
  The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre's (IDMC) Activity Report covering the year 2007.... more