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Africa’s Uprooted People: Shaping a Humanitarian Response

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 August 2021

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Utterly destitute, exhausted, and terrorized, hundreds of Mozambicans each day make their way to neighboring countries seeking protection. More than a million Mozambican refugees have now fled that nation. Millions more are displaced within Mozambique. In southern Sudan, hundreds of thousands have died and many more are at risk of starvation. More than two million other southern Sudanese have been uprooted from their homes. Many of them are living in squalid shantytowns built atop garbage dumps outside the Sudanese capital, Khartoum. Elsewhere in Africa, refugees languish in settlements where they have remained for years, dependent on international food aid, while more recently arrived refugees struggle just to survive.

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Focus: Issues in U.S. Policy Toward Africa, A New Administration in an Age of Transition
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Copyright © African Studies Association 1989 

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