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.