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World Refugee Survey 2003 Country Report

Nearly 4.5 million Sudanese were uprooted at the end of 2002, including an estimated 4 million internally displaced persons and some 475,000 Sudanese who lived as refugees and asylum seekers.

Sudanese refugees and asylum seekers included about 170,000 in Uganda, some 90,000 in Ethiopia, 70,000 in Congo-Kinshasa, 70,000 in Kenya, 35,000 in Central African Republic (CAR), 20,000 in Egypt, 15,000 in Chad, 1,000 in Eritrea, and 5,000 Sudanese asylum seekers in Western industrialized countries. A quarter-million to a half-million Sudanese became newly uprooted during 2002, according to various estimates. ...
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NEWS AND REPORTS
2/2004 Largely Ignored by International Community, Yearlong Massive Displacement and Death in Western Sudan's Darfur Region Continues (Press Release)
10/2/2001 More Than Half-Million People Newly Uprooted in Central, East Africa (News Release)
6/19/2001 Sudan Leads Africa in Refugees; Continent's Numbers Grow (News Release)
4/2001 House hearing on U.S./Sudan policy (Report)
4/2001 Repatriation program begins for Eritrean refugees in Sudan (Report)
4/2001 Sudanese refugees resettled in the United States, FY 1999-2000 (Report)
4/2001 Seventeen Years of Crisis in Sudan (Report)
4/2001 Sudanese Lost Boys Resettle in the United States; PRM Considers Admitting other Groups Still in Kakuma (Report) November 2000)
3/16/2001 Sudan's Military Continues Aerial Bombing of Civilian Sites; International Community Stays Mute (News Release)
3/2001 Sudan Bombing Chronology 2001 (Special Report)
3/2001 USCR Director Roger Winter Testifies on America's Sudan Policy: A New Direction? (Testimony)
2001 Crisis In Sudan (Special Report)
12/13/2000 Bombings of Civilian Targets in Sudan Have Doubled; 132 Confirmed Aerial Attacks This Year (News Release)
11/7/2000 Sudan Government Bombs Civilian Targets 113 Times This Year, According to New Research by Aid Workers (News Release)
11/2000 Sudanese Government Continues Aerial Bombings (Report)
11/2000 Attorney General Extends Designation of Burundi, Sierra Leone, and Sudan for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) until November 2, 2001 (Report)
10/13/2000 Government of Sudan Renews Aerial Bombings After Losing Bid for UN Security Council Seat (News Release)
10/11/2000 U.S. Efforts Successfully Block Sudan Seat On UN Security Council (News Release)
10/2000 Sudan Fact Sheet (Report)
10/2000 Testimony before Congressional Human Rights Caucus
9/2000 PRM Resettles More Protection Cases in the Middle East and South Asia (Report)
9/2000 From 90,000 to 72,000 and Counting: U.S. Refugee Admissions Shortfall Expected for FY 2000 (Report)
8/2000 Significant New Refugee Displacement in Africa (Report)
8/2000 Humanitarian Assistance Per Person Via UN Consolidated Appeals in 1998 (Report)
7/2000 Mid-year 2000: Sudan: War Grinds On (Report)
6/13/2000 7 Million People Forced to Flee Last Year; Refugee Total Rises for First Time in 7 Years (News Release)
6/13/2000 Africa' Refugees & Displaced People: Who's Fleeing, and Where? (FAQ)
6/13/2000 Africa's Refugee Numbers Climb As New Violence Uproots 3 Million People (News Release)
6/13/2000 Review of a Dismal Decade: 1990's Ended With a Larger Population Uprooted (News Release)
6/2000 The Internally Displaced: Not Quite Refugees: A Review of Masses in Flight, The Forsaken People, and Exodus within Borders (Report)
4/2000 Fixing a "Fragmented" Humanitarian Response System: Report Exposes U.S. Policy Fault Lines, Suggests Changes (Report)
3/23/2000 Canada's Appalling Hypocrisy (OP-ED)
3/17/2000 U.S. Committee for Refugees Deplores Clinton Administration's Inaction on Escalated Bombing of Civilian Targets in Sudan (News Release)
3/2000 Sudan Bombing Chronology 2000 (Special Report
2000 The Nuba People: Confronting Cultural Liquidation by Bill Frelick (Report)
2000 In the Name of Security: Erosion of Refugee Rights in East Africa (Special Report)
12/1999 Statistics: Asylum Cases Decided by Immigration Judges, Approved or Denied, by Selected Country of Origin, FY 89-99 (Report)
12/1999 Statistics: Refugees Admitted to the United States, by Nationality FY 86-99 (Report)
11/1999 The U.S. Government and Internally Displaced Persons: Present, But Not Accounted For (Issue Paper)
11/1999 UNHCR, U.S. Government Gear Up To Double Refugee Admissions from the Middle East and South Asia (Report)
11/1999 State Department Scales Back Family-Based Refugee Processing for Africans (Report)
11/1999 Attorney General Redesignates Burundi, Sierra Leone, and Sudan for Temporary Protected Status (Report)
6/1999 House of Representatives Condemns Sudanese Government" (Report)
3/1999 Follow the Cows and Women -- Personal Stories of Sudan's Uprooted People (Issue Paper)
2/1999 Bombing at the Yei Hospital (Report)
12/1998 PDF: Quantifying Genocide in Southern Sudan and the Nuba Mountains, 1983-1998, by Millard Burr
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7/1998 Sudan Famine: Observations at Emergency Feeding Center (Report)
10/1993 A Working Document: Quantifying the Genocide in the Southern Sudan 1983-1993 (Issue Paper)
5/1993 Sudan 1990-1992: Food Aid, Famine, and Failure (Issue Paper)
1991 War and Famine in the Sudan (Issue Paper)
8/1990 Khartoum's Displaced Persons: A Decade of Despair (Issue Paper)

 

PHOTO GALLERY

Photo Journal: The Long, Long Wait: Refugees from Sudan Living in Ethiopia (November 2001)

PHOTO GALLERY

New Civilian Bombing in Sudan Photo Journal (January, 2001)

Photos: The Refugee Crisis in Africa
REAL AUDIO


Listen to Real Audio "Sudan Series" on the BBC website
Roger Winter, USCR Executive Director, participates in a special series of reports on Sudan. "The World," is a joint program of the BBC, Public Radio International and WGBH in Boston. The reports on Sudan aired in January 2001.

Listen to Real Audio "In Support of the People of Sudan "
Roger Winter, USCR Executive Director, discusses the magnitude of the humanitarian crisis in Sudan based on his more than two decades of working with Sudanese refugees.

Listen to Real Audio "I'm Still in War "
Mayen Wol, a refugee from Bahr-el-Ghazel in Southern Sudan, recounts the many members of his family who have been killed in the latest phase of the civil war.

Listen to Real Audio "They are Voiceless "
Helena Lueth, a refugee from Sudan, describes how she escaped the fighting in Sudan and made her way as a refugee to the United States.

Listen to Real Audio "From This Indignity Will Emerge a New Sense of Worth"
Dr. Francis Deng, the U.N. Secretary General's Special Representative on Internally Displaced Persons and the former Sudanese Ambassador to the United States, recounts the toil the war has taken on the Sudanese people.

Listen to Real Audio "Sorrow in Sudan"

Listen to Real Audio "Ethnic Cleansing Sudanese Style"








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