The Comprehensive Peace Agreement paved the way for the return of those uprooted from the south; but as of October 2005, only around 250,000 of the 4 million IDPs had returned spontaneously along with insignificant numbers of refugees. The challenges in the return areas are daunting; the civil war devastated the southern countryside, leaving practically nothing of the little infrastructure which was there before the conflict started. The peace agreement did not include other rebel groups and left many local grievances unresolved which have already led to renewed conflict in the south as well as in other parts of the country.