Great Lakes refugee crises

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The Great Lakes refugee crises were a series of mass displacements and humanitarian emergencies in Africa’s Great Lakes region during the 1990s and early 2000s, driven by interlinked civil wars, ethnic violence, and state collapse in countries such as Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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Great Lakes refugee crises canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf humanitarian emergency
mass displacement
refugee crisis
characterizedBy cholera outbreaks
forced repatriation
gender-based violence
large refugee camps
malnutrition
countryInvolved Burundi
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Kenya
Republic of the Congo
Rwanda
Tanzania
Uganda
Zambia
displacedPopulation millions of people
displacedPopulationType internally displaced persons
refugees
endTime early 2000s
hasPart Burundian refugee crisis
Congolese refugee crisis
Rwandan refugee crisis
impact cross-border insurgency
human rights violations
protracted displacement
regional destabilization
involvedOrganization International Committee of the Red Cross
Médecins Sans Frontières
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
linked to: UNHCR

World Food Programme
linkedConflict Burundian civil war
First Congo War
Rwandan genocide
Second Congo War
locatedIn African Great Lakes region
mainCause Burundian civil war
linked to: Burundian Civil War

First Congo War
Rwandan genocide
Second Congo War
civil war
ethnic violence
state collapse
peakPeriod 1994
1996–1997
refugeeHostCountry Democratic Republic of the Congo
Kenya
Republic of the Congo
Tanzania
Uganda
Zaire
Zambia
refugeeOriginCountry Burundi
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Rwanda
startTime early 1990s

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Burundian Civil War partOf Great Lakes refugee crises
Hutu–Tutsi linkedToEvent Great Lakes refugee crises