Lake Basin: Crisis Overview (as of 06 Apr 2017)

Background Population movement and violent incidents in the most affected areas Displacement trend Total displacements including IDPs, refugees Around 17 million people live in the affected Latest incidents1 Refugees2 areas across the four Lake Chad basin and returnees (in million) countries. The number of displaced people has Diffa NIGER Lac 3.0 tripled over the last two years. Most of the Diffa NIGER 106.2k displaced families are sheltered by communities 7.8k 2.5 that count among the world’s poorest and most Lac Kukawa vulnerable. Food insecurity and malnutrition 2.0 Borno Yobe have reached critical levels. Borno Yobe Jere Dikwa 1.5 Mar Mar Maiduguri 2016 2017 Konduga Gwoza Recent developments Waza CHAD NIGERIA CHAD Mayo Moskota Far-North Food insecurity across the region is projected 86.3k Incidents trend1 to worsen in the coming months as communities Far-North already struggling with severe food shortages and Total of violent incidents and deaths reported adversity traverse the lean season. The latest food Adamawa since March 2016 Adamawa security assessments show that more than 50,000 people risk famine in Nigeria’s north-eastern Incidents Deaths Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states between June CAMEROON 0,4k 10 15 35 70k 40 400 and August. Some 5.2 million people are projected Incidents to suffer severe food scarcity, a third of them at Diffa 30 300 “emergency” levels. 3 5 Internally Displaced Persons Accessible territories 200 Across the Lake Chad Basin, almost seven 20 million people are struggling with food 10 100 Diffa NIGER Diffa insecurity. Timely funding will be required to NIGER Lac 121.0k Lac 0 Mar Mar 0 provide agricultural inputs for communities during 103.6k 2016 2017 the upcoming lean season and ease the scale of food insecurity. Borno 1.51M At the end of March, only 11.2 per cent of the Yobe Yobe 2017 funding status US$1.5 billion required to cover the most 113.0k (in million US$) urgent needs have been funded. Borno In March, UNHCR reported that since January NIGERIA CHAD NIGERIA CHAD Nigeria 140.5 913.9 more than 2,600 Nigerian refugees were forcefully Far-North Far-North returned from Cameroon. Humanitarian partners 203.5k Cameroon 13.1 178.3 have urged Nigeria’s neighbours to continue keeping their borders open to grant access and 1% 4% 3% 4% Adamawa Adamawa Niger 15.0 124.6 asylum to people fleeing the conflict. On 2 March, 146.2k Cameroon and Nigeria together with UNHCR have Not accessible signed a tripartite agreement on the voluntary Main axes and towns CAMEROON Chad 0.3 121.0 accessible with repatriation of Nigerian refugees in Cameroon. CAMEROON 5k 25 50 150 695k restrictions Funded Accessible Unmet 17M a 2.4M4 10.7M 515,000 6.7M US$1.5B people living in affected areas people displaced people in need children suffering from severe food insecure people at crisis requirements for 2017 (IDPs, refugees and returnees) acute malnutrition and emergency levels 121 191 140 1.05B CHD CMR NER NGA CHD CMR NER NGA CHD CMR NER NGA CHD CMR NER NGA CHD6 CMR NER NGA6 518k 4M 704k 12M 127k 294k 243k 1.77M 345k 1.6M 340k 8.5M 22k 31k 12k 450k 160k 1.5M 340k 4.7M CHD CMR NER NGA

Sources: (1) ACLED database as of 1st of April 2017. (2) UNHCR and Government. (3) CMR DTM Round 7, Nigeria DTM Round 14, Chad CCCM/SHELTER/ANE, ORS (http://ors.ocharowca.info), does not include flood-related IDPs in Nigeria and Cameroon. (4) This figure does not include estimated returnees in Nigeria and Cameroon. (5) IOM, OCHA Nigeria. (6) CH: current situation (Mar-May 2017). Feedback: [email protected], [email protected] Website: wca.humanitarianresponse.info Twitter: @OCHAROWCA The boundaries and names shown and the designations used on these maps do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the United Nations. Disclaimer: (a) The information in the snapshot applies to areas most affected by -related violence - Cameroon (Far-North), Chad (Lac), Niger (Diffa) and Nigeria (Adamawa, Borno and Yobe).