IDP

IDP
 n.— «Many scrape by in Jabal Ulia, Jabaronna or Wad Al-Bashir—government-run camps for internally displaced persons—IDPs, in refugee argot—on the outskirts of Khartoum.» —“The Art of Flight” by Davin A. Hutchins Egypt Today (Cairo, Egypt) May, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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