IDPs
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Chipwi Township IDPs Leave Resettlement Site, Return to Camp
Internally displaced Kachin people (IDPs) have moved back to their camp in Chipwi Township after suffering from water shortages and…
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Kachin IDPs Face Food Insecurity During COVID-19 Lockdown
All the internally displaced persons (IDPs) camps in Kachin State have been under lockdown since the end of March after…
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‘Not Enough Water to Wash Our Hands,’ Say Kachin IDPs Bracing For COVID-19
While thorough handwashing has been proven as an effective strategy to fight the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, internally displaced…
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Returned IDPs Demand Landmines Be Removed From Nam San Yang
Villagers in Nam San Yang, who returned to the community from internally displaced persons (IDP) camps more than one year…
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Resettled Kachin IDPs Request Aid As They ‘Start From Zero’
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) who have resettled to the village of Nam San Yang in Kachin State say that they…
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KBC: ‘If IDPs Want to Return Home, We Are Ready to Help Them’
The Kachin Baptist Convention (KBC) is preparing to send 500 families of internally displaced persons (IDPs) to pre-selected villages in…
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Two Kachin IDPs Injured in Landmine Blast
Two Kachin internally displaced persons (IDPs) were injured after they stepped on a landmine while trying to reach their farmland…
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KHCC Prepares for Return of More than 3,000 Kachin IDPs
The Kachin Humanitarian Concern Committee (KHCC) is preparing to resettle a total of more than 3,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs)…
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Returned Kachin IDPs Prepare to Flee Again
The first displaced returnees to the Kachin village of Nam San Yang in Waingmaw Township are again preparing to flee…
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Amid Ceasefire Speculation, Kachin IDPs Ask If They Will ‘Need to Run Again’
Kachin people displaced by war have expressed concern about how a potential ceasefire between the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) and…
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