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An African Union summit on refugees has opened with a plea for governments to take a greater role in responding to the plight of the millions of people forcibly displaced by conflicts. Full Article at Voice of America
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Kampala, Uganda 22 October 2009 – In January 2009, Africa was host to an estimated 11.6 million Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) out of the world's 26 million IDP's. It is with the aim to address forced displacement, which is avoidable by reducing... Full Article at Relief Web
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KAMPALA, 22 October 2009 (IRIN) - Civil society and government officials are gathered in the Ugandan capital of Kampala to discuss the Convention on the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Africa... Full Article at Reuters Alert Net
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African leaders will on Thursday gathered here to consider and adopt a convention for the protection and assistance of internally displaced persons (IDPs) after realization that the continent can not develop with millions of these people kept in... Full Article at People's Daily Online
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PRESIDENT Rupiah Banda is today expected in Uganda's capital city, Kampala where he will join other African leaders from 35 nations to attend a landmark African Union (AU) special summit on refugees, returnees and internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) on... Full Article at AllAfrica.com
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Many of these actors they are superficial in their approach to conflict resolution ... They mostly misdiagnose the causes and therefore prescribe wrong medicines. Hence, the conflicts are never resolved in many cases. Or if they are resolved they are not resolved satisfactorily.
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This is a convention which is enriching the international humanitarian law ... It is going beyond what we have now in the existing instruments. So additional obligations will be put on the shoulders of member states, but as I said, also shoulders of armed groups because they are an integral part of the ...
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Refugees and people internally displaced by conflict or by natural disasters more and more often live side by side, facing the same hardship, misery and threat to their security and basic human dignity ... Many stay in camps, but more and more today refugees and internally displaced are settling in Afri...
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Together we can forge a better future for Africa.
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