IDPs means internally displaced persons. However the African Union has enacted a Convention on the Protection and Assistance of IDPs in Africa. Then I am looking at the state parties obligation and responsibility to the Convention which they have ratified and not domesticated as a national legislation with particular reference to internally displaced persons in Nigeria.
@Leonard Opara: Recall that the Kampala Convention (2009) was an adoption of the UN Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement. In itself, the principles are a set of normative, non-binding/non-legal principles that have set the operational standard for addressing issues of internal displacement. They become legal only where national governments domesticate them into legislation. As it stands, Nigeria has not domesticated them. Although, in recognition of the growing number of the displaced population, government established a ministry for humanitarian assistance and relief, in addition to National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA). But as it stands, the Ministry is far from addressing durable solutions for the displaced populations and their communities.
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