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  • Iraq: Hard time for IDPs in the age of Coronavirus - Kirkuk Now
    Coronavirus outbreak has made life more challenging for the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Iraq. Hundreds of thousands have remained in their tents for nearly two months without enough food rations and financial aid; this is despite of the fact they are unable to leave and work outside the camps like before.

    The IDPs camps across the country have been placed under a curfew to stop IDPs’ interaction with outside, aiming at preventing the spread of the coronavirus in the camps, according to the Iraqi Ministry of Displacement and Migration decision.
    Khalaf Ilyas, media officer at Bersiv IDPs camp in Duhok, said, “movement is banned between the camps, and the IDPs are disallowed to leave the camps.
    Hundreds of IDPs who used to work outside the camps and in the other Iraq provinces have recently reunited with their families after nearly two months of national lockdown.
    Six million Iraqis, an equivalent to 15 percent of the country’s population, were displaced between Mid-2014 to 2017 due to the ISIS advance and retaking those areas by the Iraqi forces. Many of those IDPs still live in camps to the lack of basic services and unstable security situation in their home towns.

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