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Aid agencies staggered by IDP numbers

KANO, 27 January 2010 (IRIN) – Relief agencies are struggling to help the some 18,000 displaced people in 17 makeshift camps in and around the central Nigerian city of Jos.

IDPs on the run again as fighting hits Beletweyne

BELETWEYNE, 19 January 2010 (IRIN) – Thousands of internally displaced in Somalia’s central town of Beletweyne are on the move again following 10 days of fighting between rival Islamist militias, amid reports of continuing heavy shelling in parts of the town.

Between an IDP camp and unsafe home

GOZ BEIDA, 22 October 2009 (IRIN) – The UN Refugee Agency is colour-coding villages red, yellow and green in eastern Chad marking how safe it is for internally displaced persons to return home: people from areas classified as green safe will no longer be considered as IDPs, but can remain [...]