Food and medicine are scarce across besieged parts of the country and among over 200,000 internally displaced Syrians.Yet it is hard to shake the scepticism entirely.
The Red Crescent fears the refugees who return will simply join the ranks of the 2m-plus internally displaced Iraqis it estimates are scattered across the country.Still, the return of the refugees fits into a general weariness with sectarian hatred.
Earlier this year in Yemen, the WFP was forced to cut food rations in half for 250,000 internally displaced people because it could not raise $24m for its programme there (even as the Pentagon approved a $150m aid package for the Yemeni military to fight terrorism).
With up to 20,000 internally displaced people in Tomping, it takes me quite some time to find her again, but when I do, it is well worth it.
Part of the harsh, brutal answer lies in the fact that none of the elite nations feel the impact of this crisis--it is too marginalised and, unlike the desperate Syrian refugees risking their lives to reach Europe, most of the Yemenis are internally displaced and cannot make it to safety elsewhere.
Home, for now: 20,000 call Tomping's tent-shelters home 7 May 2014 – While walking through the maze of plastic-sheeted tent shelters that make up the Tomping PoC site for internally displaced people in Juba, it does not take one long to realize how vital UNICEF's work is for displaced children.
Insecurity is rampant and the plight of the millions of internally displaced is no longer news, it is just normal.
Internally displaced from Aleppo have brought it to Tartous," Hoff said.
UNICEF responded to renewed violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where, in 2012, the number of internally displaced persons was the highest it had been since 2009.
