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Timor-Leste: IDPs returning home, but to ongoing poverty and lack of access to basic services
Three and a half years after the 2006 crisis and the displacement of up to 150,000 people in Timor-Leste, all 65 camps for internally displaced people (IDPs) have been closed and their inhabitants have returned home or relocated to other areas of the country.
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