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RAPPORT DES RESULTATS Crispin KAYEMBE, consultant MUHINDO GYENANO, Coordonnateur de l'étude Juin 2001 I. INTRODUCTION La République Démocratique du Congo, pays de l'Afrique centrale vaste de 2.345.000 km2 est classée depuis 1990 parmi les pays les plus pauvres du monde. En effet,…

Kinshasa, 28 June 2001Dimensions of disaster There can be no mistaking the wake-up call that has emanated from the Democratic Republic of Congo over recent months. Mortality studies by the International Rescue Committee 1, 2 , and…

Guinea hosted about 390,000 refugees at the close of 2000, including an estimated 300,000 from Sierra Leone, and some 90,000 from Liberia. An estimated 13,000 new Sierra Leonean refugees fled to Guinea during the year, while approximately 30,000 refugees repatriated from…

Tanzania hosted approximately 540,000 refugees at the end of 2000: about 400,000 from Burundi, more than 110,000 from Congo-Kinshasa, nearly 30,000 from Rwanda, and about 3,000 from Somalia. Tanzania also hosted 100,000 to 200,000 Burundians who fled to Tanzania in…

Uganda hosted approximately 230,000 refugees at the end of 2000: some 200,000 from Sudan, nearly 15,000 from Rwanda, about 10,000 from Congo-Kinshasa, 1,000 from Somalia, and several thousand from various other countries. An estimated 20,000 Ugandans were refugees, including approximately 10,000…

More than 190,000 Liberians were refugees at the end of 2000: some 90,000 in Guinea, about 90,000 in Côte d'Ivoire, nearly 10,000 in Ghana, about 3,000 in Sierra Leone, and nearly 3,000 in Nigeria. Approximately 40,000 Liberian refugees repatriated…

The Central African Republic hosted nearly 55,000 refugees at the end of 2000, including about 35,000 from Sudan, an estimated 15,000 from Congo-Kinshasa, about 3,000 from Chad, and nearly 1,000 from various other African countries. Refugees from Sudan Large numbers…

Guinea-Bissau hosted about 6,000 refugees and asylum seekers at the end of 2000, including approximately 5,000 from Senegal, and 1,000 from Sierra Leone and Liberia. Thousands of citizens of Guinea-Bissau who began the year as refugees in neighboring countries voluntarily…

Approximately 55,000 Rwandans were refugees and asylum seekers at the end of 2000: nearly 30,000 in Tanzania, some 15,000 in Uganda, about 5,000 in Congo-Brazzaville, up to 3,000 in Kenya, about 1,000 each in Burundi and Congo-Kinshasa, and 2,000…

Approximately 465,000 Sudanese were refugees or asylum seekers at the end of 2000: some 200,000 in Uganda, about 70,000 in Ethiopia, an estimated 70,000 in Congo-Kinshasa, at least 55,000 in Kenya, 35,000 in Central African Republic, about 20,000 in…