[Rudaw] So far this year, around 10,000 Yazidis have returned to their homes in the Shingal (Sinjar) region of northern Nineveh province, Iraq’s migration and displacement ministry on Saturday as Baghdad continues its efforts to close camps across the country.
Ministry spokesperson Ali Abbas said that nearly 10,000 people have returned to the Yazidi heartland, with the latest convoy of 326 people departing Mam Rashan camp in Duhok province on November 6.
Each returning family will be given four million Iraqi dinars (about $3,050) along with some basic household items including a fridge, stove, and television, according to Abbas. This is provided by the Iraqi government to encourage internally displaced persons (IDPs) to return home.
Despite the incentives, many families are reluctant to leave because of continued violence in their homelands, a lack of reconstruction following the destruction of their houses, and little in the way of basic services. Some who voluntarily left the camps have been forced to return, unable to piece together the basics.
Many of the camps in the Kurdistan Region suffer from a lack of funds, as the humanitarian focus has shifted from emergency response to development and stabilization.
Human rights advocates have expressed concern about Iraq’s push to close the camps, stressing that all returns must be safe, voluntary, and dignified.
According to the United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
International Organization for Migration, as of August there are 1,053,038 IDPs across the country, primarily in Duhok, Erbil, Nineveh, Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
and Sulaimani provinces. It has documented 4,897,129 people who have returned to their homes after the defeat of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS).
So far this year, about 70,000 people have returned to their homes, according to the UN figures. 
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