KRG Hosts over 80% of Iraqi IDPs

The Kurdistan Region is still home to over 80% of the total Iraqi internally displaced persons (IDP), an official from Iraq’s Ministry of Migration and Displacement said.

Deputy Minister Karim Nouri said in a statement that 37,000 Iraqi families are still displaced across Iraq due to the ongoing security concerns, from which 30,000 are sheltered in the Kurdistan Region.

Following the emergence of the Islamic State (IS) in 2014, 750,000 families, making up millions of individuals, escaped their homes and took refuge in the Kurdistan Region.

Many of them have been sent back to their homes especially in the recent months when the Iraqi Federal Government decided to close down dozens of camps in north of the country.

According to Nouri, 30,000 IDP families are now living in 26 camps in the provinces of Erbil, Duhok, and Sulaymaniyah.