AFGHANISTAN: Increasing hardship and limited support for growing displaced population

Key findings of new IDMC report:

• Over 235,000 IDPs in the country originating from pre 2004.
• Thousands more displaced by the conflict between the government, international coalition forces and the armed opposition but their number has been impossible to determine due to a lack of access to the conflict zones.
• About 185,000 IDPs live in three main camps in Kandahar, Herat and Helmand provinces
• 1,843 IDPs in the north
• 119,958 IDPs in the south
• 14,624 IDPs in the south-east
• 55,884 IDPs in the east
• 36,288 IDPs in the west
  

Source: http://www.internal-displacement.org/8025708F004BE3B1/%28httpInfoFiles%29/E7493C8872C5F6B9C12574EF005CD9A5/$file/Afghanistan_Overview_Oct08.pdf