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During the period late-July to early-September 1993, the author undertook a study of the magnitude and needs of the internally displaced population in Kenya's Western, Nyanza and Rift Valley provinces. The inter-ethnic clashes, which had caused some 250,000 people to become displaced since late-1991, had by August 1993 begun to ameliorate, albeit sporadic incidents were still occurring and a general sense of insecurity and tension prevailed in almost all of the affected areas. The primary objectives of this report are basically twofold: (1) to update the data base on the prevailing conditions of the displaced and returnees as they vary from region to region; and (2) to more clearly define policies and strategies for rehabilitation and reconstruction which will address the urgent need to strenghthen the capacities of affected populations to rebuilt their livelihoods. (DÜI-Hff)

This paper examines the options for African asylum states in their attempts to support large refugee communities, given the limited resources that most have at their disposal.

The literature on Africa's refugees has grown dramatically over the past decade. Two issues, however, remain relatively unresearched and poorly understood — the plight of urban refugees and the problems associated with repatriation. This article examines the dimensions of the latter. After placing repatriation into the context of contemporary durable solutions applied to the African refugee dilemma, the article examines some of the problems, concerns and frustrations associated with African repatriation exercises in terms of cultural, economic and political obstacles encountered in the process of repatriation and the concomitant rehabilitation of refugees in their areas of origin. The article is illustrated with examples drawn from the Southern Sudanese repatriation of the early 1970s.