The Kampala Convention and the Plight of Internally Displaced Persons in Nigeria: A Case Study of Uhogua IDP Camp in Edo State

Abstract

Sub-Saharan Africa is home to 46 per cent of the world’s internally displaced persons (IDPs) with Nigeria being amongst the 10 countries with the largest number of IDPs globally. This article interrogates the extent to which Nigeria adheres to the stipulations of the Kampala Convention in managing Boko Haram terrorism survivors at the International Christian Centre for Missions. The article relied on semi-structured interviews and secondary data to shed light on the debilitating conditions of the IDPs. The findings reveal that despite the efforts of the camp management at addressing the plight of the over 3,000 IDPs, their conditions still terribly fall short of the requirements of the Kampala Convention. Thus, it is recommended that the Nigerian government and its international partners should provide much-needed support to the Camp to effectively ameliorate the plight of the terrorism survivors.

Keywords:  Kampala Convention, Uhogua, Internally Displaced Persons, Boko Haram survivors