Trends and Markers, Recent data, statistics and indicators - African Security Review Vol 13 No 3, 2004

TRENDS AND MARKERS

Recent data, statistics and indicators

Published in African Security Review Vol 13 No 3 , 2004

Refugees and Internally Displaces Persons (IDPs) in Africa
Countries Affected*
Angola	Chad	Côte d’Ivoire	Djibouti
Ethiopia	Eritrea	Guinea	Kenya
Liberia	Sierra Leone	Somalia	Sudan
Uganda	The Great Lakes Region
*There are approximately 260,000 Angolans living as refugees in Congo-Brazzaville, DR Congo, Namibia and Zambia.
The Great Lakes Region
Location	December 1996	June 1998
Burundi	296,000	670,000
Rwanda	1,179,000	550,000
Tanzania	759,000	329,000
DR Congo	-	50,000
Total	2,913,500	2,220,000
West Africa Region
Location	December 1996	June 1998
Liberia	1,800,00	209,000
Sierra Leone	609,000	300,000
Côte d’Ivoire	305,000	140,000
Guinea	536,000	614,000
Total	3,250,000	1,263,000

Mines Retained for Training and Research

(Article 3)

Of the current 141 States Parties, 64 retain over 289,000 antipersonnel mines for training and research purposes under Article 3 of the Mine Ban Treaty. The status of practice among States Parties in this area is depicted in the following chart:

Countries with landmine /UXO survivors

Angola*	Lesotho	Somalia
Botswana	Liberia*	South Africa**
*Burundi**	Malawi*	*Sudan**
Chad*	Mauritania*	Swaziland
Congo-Brazaville	Mozambique*	Tanzania
DR Congo*	Namibia*	Uganda*
Djibouti*	Niger	Zambia
Eritrea*	Nigeria*	Zimbabwe*
Ethiopia*	Rwanda*	Somaliland*
Guinea-Bissau*	Senegal*
Kenya*	Sierra Leone

Bold – States Parties to the Mine Ban Treaty

Bold / Italics – Signatories to the Mine Ban Treaty

Italics – areas not recognised as independent states

* Country with new mine / UXO victims in 2000 – 2001

** Country whose nationals have been injured during mili tary operations, peacekeeping, demining operations, or other activities, while abroad either 2000 – 2001

Stockpile Destruction

(Article 4)

Article 4 of the Mine Ban Treaty obligates all State Parties to destroy their antipesonnel mine stockpiles, and all antipersonnel mines under their jurisdiction or control, no later than four years after entry-into-force of the treaty for each country. The status of destruction for State Parties is depicted below:

Stockpile destruction deadline

Liberia

Cote D’Ivoire

Mauritania

Sierra Leone

Tanzania

Guinea Bissau

Eritrea

Nigeria

Algeria

DR Congo

Angola

Central African Republic

Burundi

Sudan

1 June 2004

1 December 2004

1 January 2005

1 October 2005

1 May 2005

1 November 2005

1 February 2006

1 March 2006

1 April 2006

1 November 2006

1 January 2007

1 May 2007

1 April 2008

Source: LANDMINE MONITOR DACT SHEET. Prepared by Human Rights Watch for the Ninth Meeting of the Intersessional Standing Committee on Stockpile Destruction of the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty.