ABSTRACT
In Chapter 7, we examined Ethiopian refugee repatriations from Sudan and Somalia
(and, in passing, from Djibouti) during the 1990s.1 Indeed, of the over 500,000
Ethiopian refugees in the two countries in 1991,2 there remained about 32,000
refugees by late 1998 as a result of assisted as well as unassisted repatriations
(USCR 1992; USCR 1999). This represents about 94 per cent reduction in the
seven years following the regime change in Ethiopia. The number further declined
to about 15,000 by early 2004 (USCR 2005). Thus, between 1991 and 2003, the
number of Ethiopian refugees declined by a total of about 97 per cent. Therefore, the
repatriation endeavor of Ethiopian refugees has been successful and the UNHCR no
longer supports pre-1991 Ethiopian refugees in Sudan.
