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Title:Increasing the trauma of return: an assessment of the UN's emergency response to the evacuation of the Sudanese refugee camps in Ethiopia, 1991
Author:Johnson, Douglas H.ISNI
Book title:In search of cool ground: war, flight & homecoming in northeast Africa
Year:1996
Pages:171-181
Language:English
Geographic terms:Sudan
Ethiopia
Subjects:refugees
UNHCR
return migration
Abstract:This paper is based on the author's experience as a consultant for the World Food Programme (WFP) in Operation Lifeline Sudan (OLS), Southern Sector, at various times in 1990-1991, and particularly during the emergency operation at Nasir (south Sudan) following the return of Sudanese refugees from Ethiopia (mainly Itang) in June 1991. The author describes the consequences of some of the major relief decisions taken during that emergency. He shows an overall failure of the UN response to the evacuation of Itang and the return of the refugees to Nasir, and, from there, to their home areas. A lack of UN preparedness, despite two years of OLS, and the apparent unwillingness of a major donor, the USA, to support systematic reintegration of returnees inside the southern Sudan, are among the reasons for the UN failure. Notes, ref.
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