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IDP News Alert
The IDP News Alert is a weekly summary of selected global news on internally displaced people, compiled by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre of the Norwegian Refugee Council.

Press Releases
Latest Updates
See below a list of recent Internal Displacement Profile updates.

8 September 2010
Indonesia : Aceh: IDPs and returnees still face significant recovery and reintegration needs
Five years after the Helsinki agreement put an end to a 30-year long conflict between the armed forces and Acehnese separatists, tens of thousands of people have yet to return to their homes in Aceh province, Indonesia. ... more

6 September 2010
Pakistan : Flooding worsens situation for people displaced by conflict in north-west
Internal displacement in Pakistan’s north-western Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and Khyber-Pukhtunkhwa (KP) has continued for at least six years, but reached a massive scale from 2008 to 2009. ... more

2 September 2010
India : National and state authorities failing to protect IDPs
In 2009 and during the first half of 2010, at least 650,000 people in central India (Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal), north-east India (Assam, Mizoram-Tripura and Manipur), Jammu and Kashmir, Orissa and Gujarat were living in displacement due to armed conflict and ethnic or communal violence. ... more

3 August 2010
Yemen : IDPs facing international neglect
Following intermittent clashes between Al-Houthi groups and the Yemeni government in July 2009, the situation in Sa’ada governorate escalated into open conflict in the sixth round of hostilities since 2004. ... more

30 July 2010
Somalia : Displacement and worsening humanitarian situation as a result of ongoing violence and conflict
Renewed fighting in Mogadishu and other areas of Somalia since May 2009 has displaced hundreds of thousands of civilians and also exacerbated the already desperate humanitarian situation of existing internally displaced people (IDPs), in particular the children and women among them. ... more

Special Country Reports
See below a list of Special Country Reports.

28 June 2010
Philippines : IDP return still hampered by insecurity and lack of assistance
Nearly a year after a ceasefire agreement between the government and the rebels of the Muslim Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) put an end to renewed fighting in the southern island of Mindanao, some 26,000 families remain displaced in June 2010. ... more

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