Institute for War & Peace Reporting | Caucasus Reporting Service | July 8, 2011 Residents of the Georgian port town of Poti are furious about plans to settle 12,000 refugees in purpose-built accommodation there, saying their arrival will worsen the already catastrophic job situation. Poti, on the Black Sea, is home to 47,000 people, so [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Internally Displaced Persons’
GEORGIA: Georgian Port Braces for Refugee Influx
Posted in Displacement, Europe, Georgia, Government, Internal Displaced Persons, tagged 2008 Georgia War, Abkhazia, Georgia, Internally Displaced Persons, refugees, south ossetia on July 8, 2011 |
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 |
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 [...]
KENYA-SOMALIA: Endless stream of refugees
Posted in Africa, Internal Displaced Persons, NGOs, Somalia, tagged Internally Displaced Persons, Mogadishu, Refugee Camps, refugees, Somalia on May 17, 2011 |
IRIN 17 May, 2011 Facilities in refugee camps in northeastern Kenya have been stretched to the limit, aid workers say, as more and more Somali refugees flee the conflict at home. “Dadaab refugee camps continue to receive a significant number of new arrivals who are often very tired and exhausted, having travelled very far, sometimes [...]
LIBYA: LIBYA-TUNISIA: “Catastrophe” in Western Mountains region
Posted in Civilian Casualties, Displacement, Foreign Aid, Government, Internal Displaced Persons, Libya, Middle-East, Rocket, Shelling, tagged Civilian Casualties, Foreign Aid, government forces, Internally Displaced Persons on May 11, 2011 |
IRIN 9 May, 2011 SUGHEAD, 9 May 2011 (IRIN) – Clashes between government and opposition forces in the Western Mountains region of Libya have blocked access to thousands of fleeing civilians, aggravating the humanitarian situation there, say aid workers and locals.
LIBYA: Libyan Migrants’ Boat Sinks: Witnesses Say Ship With 600 Aboard Sunk Near Tripoli
Posted in Civilian Casualties, Displacement, Internal Displaced Persons, Libya, tagged Civilian Casualties, Internally Displaced Persons, Libya on May 11, 2011 |
The Huffington Post, Colleen Barry and Frank Jordans 9 May, 2011 MILAN — An overcrowded ship carrying up to 600 people trying to flee Libya sank just outside the port of Tripoli, the U.N. refugee agency said Monday, citing witness accounts.
