Sudan is suffering the effects of the longest civil war in the world, a conflict that raged on and off for 40 years and caused vast numbers of people to flee their homes.
An estimated four million people are internally displaced within the country, while 350,000 are refugees in neighbouring countries.
Central to this human catastrophe is the legacy of combat: landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO), and dumps/caches of munitions and weapons.
Remnants of conflict continue to kill and maim, deny access to land and basic resources, and restrict relief and peace monitoring efforts.
The 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement signed between the Government of Sudan and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement has brought a dramatic increase in the movement of Internally Displaced People and refugees returning to their ancestral homelands.
This population movement and the increased government support for development and conflict recovery in previously inaccessible areas has placed significant demands on agencies to further expand and strengthen their Sudan programmes.
