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UNHCR EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE (EXCOM): GENEVA: 6-16 OCTOBER
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SUDAN
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encouraged by relative decline in refugee burden, thanks partly to impressive UNHCR effort. But worsening civil war in South threatens new disaster if no political settlement
reached.
Background
The influx of refugees to Sudan, which attracted considerable public attention in late 1984, tailed off during 1985. But
substantial numbers of Eritreans and Tigreans remain in Eastern
Sudan: over 300,000 in the care of the UN High Commission for
Refugees (UNCHR) and the Sudanese Refugee Commission, in generally well organised camps, and over 4.00,000 settled spontaneously in towns and villages. About 120,000 refugees from Chad are in Western Sudan (half in camps, half spontaneously
settled). About 180,000 Ugandan refugees are in Southern Sudan, though many are expected to return after this year's harvest.
The total for Sudan as a whole is therefore over 1 million.
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