Reuters | Mohammed Mukhashaf | June 13, 2011 ADEN – More than 15,000 people fleeing fighting between the army and Islamist gunmen in Yemen’s Abyan province have turned schools in Yemen’s southern port city into makeshift refugee camps. Refugees complained that authorities have not provided them with enough medicine, clothing and blankets. They sleep 20 and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘internally displaced people’
YEMEN: Thousands of Yemenis take refuge in Aden schools
Posted in Displacement, Internal Displaced Persons, Middle-East, Yemen, tagged Displacement, IDPs, internally displaced people, Internally Displaced Persons, Middle-East, Yemen on June 14, 2011 |
ISRAEL: UN Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos – Statement to the press on mission to occupied Palestinian territory and Israel
Posted in Civilian Casualties, Diplomacy, Displacement, Government, Israel, Middle-East, United Nations, tagged internally displaced people, Israel, West Bank on May 25, 2011 |
I want to report on a four-day visit I made to the occupied Palestinian territory and to Israel. I met Palestinian and Israeli officials as well as affected Palestinians and humanitarian organizations, as well as affected Israelis in Sderot. I also visited communities in Area C of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and in Sderot [...]
LIBYA: Libyans flee violence in remote Western area
Posted in Civilian Casualties, Displacement, Government, Internal Displaced Persons, Libya, Middle-East, Refugee Camps, tagged civilian casualities, internally displaced people, Libya on April 18, 2011 |
Reuters, By Fredrik Dahl April 17 2011 TUNIS, April 17 (Reuters) – Hundreds of Libyans fleeing attacks by pro-government forces in a remote and mountainous western region poured across the border into neighbouring Tunisia on Sunday, a resident and refugees said. The violence in the Western Mountains region, a sparsely-populated area, has received little of [...]
LIBYA: What Few People Witness
Posted in Africa, Displacement, Foreign Aid, Government, Internal Displaced Persons, Journalists, Libya, Military, NGOs, Protesters, Refugee Camps, United Nations, tagged internally displaced people, Libya, refugees, UN, UNSC on March 25, 2011 |
By: Michel Gabaudan March 24, 2011 It is said that people during times of conflict vote with their feet. As such, monitoring the movement of people is often a good barometer of the nature of that conflict. However, the images of people fleeing Libya into Egypt and Tunisia do not show us the whole story [...]
PHILIPPINES: Civilians flee village as clan war erupts in Maguindanao
Posted in Displacement, Insurgents, Internal Displaced Persons, Philippines, Southeast Asia, tagged IDPs, internally displaced people, Philippines on March 10, 2011 |
http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/308296/civilians-flee-village-clan-war-erupts-maguindanao March 9, 2011, 11:55am CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao, Philippines (PNA) – A clan war has erupted in a remote village in Maguindanao sending more than 150 families fleeing, the military here said.
