Up to four million Sudanese displaced

Up to four million Sudanese were internally displaced by the end of 1998, a US Committee for Refugees (USCR) report said. It termed this the "largest internally displaced population in the world". It also said a huge population of the exiles lived in Egypt and elsewhere, "many of whom considered themselves refugees although host governments did not give them official refugee status". The report further said that more than 350,000 Sudanese were refugees in seven countries - an estimated 170,000 in Uganda, 60,000 in Ethiopia, 45,000 in Kenya, about 35,000 in Central African Republic, some 30,000 in DRC, nearly 10,000 in Chad and 2,000 in Egypt. USCR noted that Sudan hosted approximately 360,000 refugees from neighbouring countries of which 320,000 were from Eritrea, 30,000 from Ethiopia, about 5,000 from Chad, 3,000 from DRC and 2,000 from Uganda.