15 SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
5 COUNTRIES WITH MOST NEW DISPLACEMENTS
DRC 1,905,000
Ethiopia 1,556,000
Somalia 667,000
Conflict 4,597,000 South Sudan 553,000 Disasters 3,448,000 24.1% of the global total Burkina Faso 513,000
Sub-Saharan Africa was once again the region most Many countries in Central Africa continued to suffer affected by conflict displacement in 2019. Armed the effects of communal conflicts, while the interlinked conflict, communal violence and jihadist attacks triggers of conflict and climate change in East Africa continued in several countries, some of which are forced people to flee their homes in Ethiopia, Somalia struggling to deal with protracted crises. Widespread and South Sudan. poverty, longstanding economic stagnation, lack of development, competition over diminishing resources Figures for displacement associated with disasters in and the effects of climate change are among the factors sub-Saharan Africa are lower than for conflict and that increase the risk of displacement. violence, but they are still cause for concern. The 3.4 million new displacements recorded in 2019 represent The same factors also aggravate its impacts, height- one of the highest figures ever for the region (see Figure ening and prolonging IDPs’ vulnerability. Around 19.2 11). Unusually heavy rains caused widespread flooding million people were living in internal displacement as in several countries, where a chronic accumulation of a result of conflict and violence as of the end of 2019, vulnerabilities and risks aggravated its impacts and the highest figure in the world and the highest ever fuelled displacement. recorded for the region. Countries in the East and Horn of Africa experienced Historical data shows that internal displacement asso- one of the wettest rainy seasons in 40 years.3 Flooding ciated with conflict and violence has increased in sub- along the White Nile basin forced many people already Saharan Africa over the past decade (see Figure 11). displaced by conflict to flee again (see White Nile basin There were 4.6 million new displacements recorded in spotlight, p.27). Mozambique bore the brunt of 2019, accounting for nearly 54 per cent of the global cyclones Idai and Kenneth, which triggered hundreds total. Jihadist groups operating in the Sahel region esca- of thousands of displacements and destroyed homes, lated their attacks and triggered mass displacement in infrastructure and crops. Comoros, Madagascar, Malawi countries including Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger (see and Zimbabwe were also hard hit (see Mozambique The Sahel spotlight, p.23). spotlight, p.25).
Boko Haram’s insurgency, now in its tenth year, and Nearly two million people were thought to be living operations against the group continued to trigger signif- in internal displacement as a result of disasters in sub- icant new displacement and prolong its duration across Saharan Africa as of the end of the year. the Lake Chad basin, a region that also has to contend with environmental degradation and desertification.
GRID 2020 16 and violence as of the end of the year, and around Central Africa 1 PART 15.9 million were expected to need humanitarian assis- tance in 2020.6 The country also had to deal with its The region’s most affected second largest Ebola outbreak, a measles outbreak and country in 2019 was the a cholera outbreak, which between them killed thou- Democratic Republic of sands of people. the Congo (DRC), where ethnic tensions, local grievances Heavy rains and flooding affected 12 of DRC’s 26 prov- and chronic poverty are the major drivers of internal inces between October and December.7 The country displacement. Nearly 1.7 million new conflict displace- as a whole recorded 233,000 new disaster displace- ments were reported during the year, compared with ments, the highest ever figure. Floods triggered 137,000 more than 1.8 million in 2018 and 2.2 million in 2017. in Nord-Ubangui and Sud-Ubangui provinces, which border the Central African Republic (CAR), and Tshopo Clashes between the military and armed groups in province was also badly affected. Around 168,000 the eastern province of North Kivu triggered 520,000 people in DRC were thought to be living in displace- new displacements, primarily in Lubero and Rutshuru ment as a result of disasters as of the end of the year. territories, and an upsurge in intercommunal violence between the Hema and Lendu communities triggered The government of CAR signed a peace deal with 453,000 in the north-eastern province of Ituri. There 14 armed groups in early February after more than was also an escalation of conflict between armed two years of negotiations facilitated by the African groups and intercommunal violence in South Kivu, Union.8 Implementation is progressing despite several where 401,000 displacements were recorded, mainly setbacks and disagreements that were resolved with in Mwenga and Fizi territories. Most of the people help from the international community, and the number displaced were women and children. of new conflict displacements fell from 510,000 in 2018 to 96,000 in 2019. The security situation remains fragile, The political situation in DRC remains tense, despite the however, and IDPs’ needs largely unmet. fact that 2019 marked the first peaceful transition of power in the country’s history.4 The new government The most serious violence of the year occurred in Birao inherited a series of challenges, not least the activities of in Vakaga prefecture, where 24,000 new displace- more than 100 armed groups in the east and ongoing ments were recorded in September as a result of clashes conflict in other areas.5 Around 5.5 million people were between the Popular Front for the Renaissance of the living in internal displacement as a result of conflict Central African Republic and the Movement of Central
Figure 11: New displacements by conflict, violence and disasters in Sub-Saharan Africa (2009-2019) 8 7.4 Conflict and violence
Disasters 5.9* 6 5.5*
4.5 4.6
4 3.7 3.4
2.6 2.6 2.6 2.4 New displacements in millions 2.2 2.2 1.9 2 1.7 1.6 1.1 1.2 1.1 1.1 0.6 0.7
0 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
* Updated figures. For further details see methodological annex, available online. 17 African Freedom Fighters for Justice, both signatories Disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration activi- to the peace deal.9 ties continued in the east of the country following the signing of a peace deal between the Ninja militia and CAR also suffered its worst flooding in 20 years in 2019, the government in December 2017.13 The region has and the capital Bangui was among the places hardest regained stability since, but there were still around hit. About 102,000 new displacements were recorded 134,000 people living in displacement as a result of across the country, and the floods caused extensive the conflict at the end of the year, around 79,000 of damage to infrastructure and livelihoods. More than them in Pool department. 10,000 homes were destroyed, and wells and latrines overflowed.10 About 6,700 hectares of farmland in The security situation in anglophone areas of Came- Ouham prefecture were inundated, aggravating food roon has been deteriorating for the last two years. insecurity. More than a third of CAR’s population of 4.7 Clashes between anglophone separatists and the secu- million were facing acute food insecurity and in need rity forces have increased in Northwest and Southwest of emergency assistance as of the end of the year.11 regions, and they spilled over into West and Littoral regions in 2019.14 Lack of access has impeded an accu- The Republic of Congo was also hit by its worst floods rate assessment of the number of new displacements, in decades, which damaged or destroyed infrastructure, leading to a conservative estimate of 26,000. Boko crops and livelihoods. The Ubangi and Congo rivers Haram also continued its activities in Far North region, burst their banks between October and December, triggering around 40,000 new displacements during inundating hundreds of villages and triggering as many the year. as 163,000 new displacements in the departments of Cuvette, Likouala, Plateaux and Sangha.12 Despite the scale of displacement and the extent of people’s needs, Cameroon’s crisis is among the world’s
A displaced family stand by their tents in the Gossi region of Timbuktu, Mali. Photo: NRC/Togo Moise, February 2018
GRID 2020 18 most neglected. Nearly a million people were living in Boko Haram carried out a series of attacks in the north- PART 1 PART internal displacement as of the end of the year, including eastern states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe during in the relatively peaceful regions of Adamaoua and the year, triggering more than 105,000 new displace- Centre region, which have increasingly become desti- ments.17 More than 473,000 IDPs were living in camps nations for IDPs fleeing conflict in other areas of the without adequate shelter across the three states as of country. October, and another 34,000 were living out in the open.18 Torrential rains also flooded several displace- Lack of access also impeded an accurate assessment ment camps, forcing many IDPs into secondary displace- of disaster displacement in Cameroon, but in common ment. Insecurity has impeded humanitarian access and with other countries in the region it experienced wide- the response has been further stretched by the mass spread flooding and landslides in 2019. Around 24,000 arrival of new IDPs, leaving many camps overwhelmed.19 new displacements were recorded, but the figure should be considered an underestimate. The floods affected Long-standing ethnic conflict between Fulani pastoral- displacement camps in the Far North region, forcing ists and Hausa farmers in north-western Katsina, Sokoto some IDPs into secondary displacement. and Zamfara states triggered new displacements in 2019 as it took on new dynamics in the form of rural banditry No figures on internal displacement associated with and criminal violence. Around 178,000 people were Boko Haram’s insurgency were available in neigh- living in internal displacement across the three states bouring Chad until 2019, when improved monitoring as of the end of the year.20 Clashes between farmers mechanisms were put in place in Lac province. These and herders in the central states have also escalated revealed around 52,000 new displacements during in recent years, triggering 53,000 new displacements the year.15 Clashes between pastoralists and farmers in in 2019. The figure, however, should be considered other provinces including Moyen-Chari, Ouaddai and an underestimate. The growing and shifting patterns Sila also forced people to flee their homes, bringing of violence in both areas require better monitoring to the number of new conflict displacements across the ascertain the true scale of displacement.21 country as a whole to 58,000. As Africa’s most populous country, Nigeria is highly Around 30,000 new disaster displacements were also exposed to disasters, particularly floods. It is traversed recorded. The most significant event was flooding in by several major rivers that often burst their banks Salamat province in August. The Logone river and during the rainy season. Adamawa and Borno states, Lake Maga burst their banks, which affected not only which were already affected by conflict, bore the brunt areas of south-western Chad but also north-eastern of flooding in 2019 during an exceptionally long rainy Cameroon. season. Flooding in the Niger river basin also destroyed almost 2,700 homes in Niger state in August and West Africa September. Disasters triggered around 157,000 new displacements across the country as whole, and were Long-running conflict and thought to have left about 143,000 people living in violence persisted across internal displacement as of the end of the year. Nigeria in 2019. Around 248,000 new conflict and The security situation in Burkina Faso, a relatively violence displacements were peaceful country in recent years, deteriorated sharply recorded during the year, and nearly 2.6 million people in 2019, triggering an unprecedented 513,000 new were thought to be living in internal displacement as of displacements (see The Sahel spotlight, p.23). 31 December. The government established the Federal Jihadist militants, including al-Qaeda affiliates from Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management neighbouring Mali, were quick to exploit the security and Social Development in August, an important step vacuum left by the fall of the former president Blaise intended to improve the coordination and mobilisation Compaoré in 2014, and a homegrown group known of resources to prevent and respond to humanitarian as Ansaroul Islam emerged in late 2016. Initially active and displacement crises.16 in northern Soum region, the militants have spread by 19 tapping into local grievances in the east and south- state. Drought is also a major trigger of displacement, west.22 They launched near-daily attacks on the security but robust data is hard to come by. It is also difficult forces in 2019, and as the state struggles to protect to distinguish drought and conflict as triggers, and in civilians, a growing number of self-defence militias have many areas they are interlinked. What is known is that emerged, aggravating the situation still further.23 ever more frequent and intense episodes of drought disrupt pastoralists’ livelihoods to the extent that they Violence in central Mali has been escalating since early become unsustainable, forcing many into displacement. 2018 and continued to do so last year. It has its roots in Some farmers have no choice but to move seasonally to a long-standing crisis in the north, where Tuareg sepa- urban areas in search of alternative income.30 ratists and jihadist militants seized swathes of territory in 2012 following an attempted coup in Bamako.24 A East and the French-led military intervention pushed the militants Horn of Africa back the following year, but they have since regrouped and expanded from the desert north into the country’s There was a significant fertile central regions (see The Sahel spotlight, p.23). fall in the number of new displacements in Ethiopia, The government signed a peace agreement with a from 2.9 million in 2018 to number of militias in 2015, but despite some progress over a million last year. Many IDPs, however, live in in terms of social and economic development, political insecure areas with little or no access to basic services or instability has impeded its implementation. The country humanitarian assistance, and a significant number have has since had four prime ministers, and a series of been displaced more than once. There were around 1.4 cabinet reshuffles have undermined continuity.25 million people living in internal displacement as a result of conflict and violence as of the end of the year, also Mali is also vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. considerably fewer than in 2018. Increasing variation in rainfall patterns, land degradation and erosion have disrupted many people’s livelihoods. The decreases are the result of a national steering About 60 per cent of the population live in rural areas committee led by the Ministry of Peace approving a and rely on rain-fed agriculture. Around 400,000 people three-phase plan in March to return all IDPs to their are thought to be affected by drought each year, and places of origin in the following months.31 Implemen- 500,000 by flooding.26 There were 6,600 new disaster tation began almost immediately, and 1.2 million IDPs displacements in 2019, but limited data means the were thought to have returned by the end of the year. figure is conservative. Most displacement sites in Gedeo, West Guji and East and West Wollegas were dismantled. In neighbouring Niger, the eastern region of Diffa remains highly unstable. Boko Haram and other non- Not everyone returned voluntarily, however, and many state armed groups carried out a series of attacks during returnees encountered significant obstacles in re-estab- the year, including one that triggered more than 18,000 lishing their lives. Many found their homes damaged or new displacements in late March and early April.27 The destroyed or were confronted by other issues in trying situation in the western states of Tahoua and Tillaberi is to reclaim their property and land. Few have access also cause for serious concern (see The Sahel spotlight, to assistance or basic services, and farmers and small p.23).28 business owners whose livelihoods have been disrupted have received little support. Insecurity in some return The government declared a state of emergency in all areas has led to a significant number of secondary three states in mid-March, and the UN and a number displacements.32 Some IDPs went into hiding and of NGOs suspended their humanitarian operations in sought to relocate themselves to avoid having to return some areas for several weeks in early May.29 Some have to their areas of origin.33 been able to resume their work since, but in a climate of violence and insecurity. Disasters triggered 504,000 new displacements in 2019. Around 190,000 were recorded during the first rainy Extensive flooding triggered 121,000 new displace- season between April and June, and 177,000 during the ments in 2019, mainly in the capital Niamey and Diffa second in October and November, when the rains were
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The Horn of Africa experienced above-average rainfall that triggered wides- pread flooding. This man and his wife lost their home and shop in Lodwar, Turkana county, Kenya. © UNICEF/UNI250645/Chinyenze, December 2019
unusually heavy. Eastern and south-eastern parts of the culminated in Ethiopia ratifying the Kampala Convention country were affected by drought, particularly lowland in February 2020.38 pastoralist and agro-pastoralist areas of Somali region, Oromia region, the Southern Nations, Nationalities, Conflict and violence in Somalia triggered 188,000 new and Peoples’ region (SNNP) and parts of Afar region.34 displacements in 2019, mainly in the south-east where The situation is of particular concern in Somali, where the al-Shabaab militia, which is affiliated to al-Qaeda, most of the 131,000 drought displacements recorded has its stronghold. More than half were recorded in in Ethiopia last year took place. More frequent and Lower Shabelle region as a result of clashes between intense episodes of drought had previously affected the group and the Somali army supported by African nearly 56,000 households in the region between 2015 Union forces. Persistent insecurity in rural areas impeded and 2017. 35 the provision of humanitarian aid, leading many people to flee to overcrowded camps in urban areas, mainly in Internal displacement clearly represents a major chal- Mogadishu, in search of refuge and assistance.39 Tens lenge for the country, but there were important policy of thousands of IDPs returned home during the year, developments intended to address the phenomenon but many only temporarily to work their land during the during the year. With support from the UN and the sowing and harvest seasons.40 international community, the government launched a durable solutions initiative in December.36 It provides a Disasters triggered 479,000 new displacements. In framework for the achievement of sustainable solutions common with other countries in East Africa, Somalia to displacement, from the policy and legislative to the was affected by widespread flooding in the second half operational level. of 2019 during an unusually wet rainy season influenced by El Niño. About a quarter of the displacements took The initiative acknowledges that internal displacement place in Belet Weyn city in Hiraan state.41 Other regions is a development priority that needs to be addressed were affected by drought, which triggered around through coordinated planning and action across 60,000 new displacements. sectors.37 Given its recent launch, 2020 will begin to reveal the extent to which putting it into practice enables Internal displacement is fuelling Somalia’s rapid urbani- safe, voluntary and dignified returns. The government sation, as people who struggle to survive and make a also organised a series of national consultations that living in rural areas seek opportunities in urban areas.42 21
Communities affected by Cyclone Idai test out the first drops of water from a new water point installed by the Spanish Red Cross. The cyclone has left many people in Mozambique at risk of disease. Photo : IFRC/Corrie Butler, May 2019
Many, however, establish themselves in informal settle- of thousands of vulnerable people along the White Nile ments where they are at high risk of eviction. More basin, in many cases forcing IDPs who had already fled than 264,000 people, most of them IDPs, were evicted conflict into secondary displacement (see White Nile during the year, making forced evictions one of the basin spotlight, p.27). main triggers of secondary displacement in the country. The most affected country along the basin was South In response to the new and protracted displacement Sudan, where the floods were described as the worst across the country, the government launched a durable in the country’s history.46 They triggered 98 per cent solutions initiative (DSI) with UN support in 2016.43 In of the 294,000 new disaster displacements recorded 2019 it established an inter-ministerial durable solu- in 2019, and left around 246,000 people still living in tions secretariat, ratified the Kampala Convention and displacement as of the end of the year. approved a national policy on IDPs and returning refu- gees.44 Somalia’s DSI has been a significant catalyst for The signing of a revitalised peace agreement between these and other developments, leading the government the government and a number of armed groups in to fully own the country’s response to internal displace- September 2018 has led to a reduction in conflict and ment, and providing an example for others to follow. violence.47 The number of associated new displacements also fell from 321,000 in 2018 to 259,000 in 2019, Unprecedented flooding in the East Africa, particu- but there were still 1.4 million people living in internal larly Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia, not only trig- displacement as of the end of the year. Implementa- gered widespread displacement but also established tion of the agreement has been slow and there was conditions for a locust infestation that caused damage an increase in violence and displacement in the second across the region. This further eroded people’s liveli- half of 2019, but the formation of a unity government hoods and negatively affected food security.45 Away in February 2020 has rekindled hopes of lasting peace.48 from the headlines, the floods also displaced hundreds
GRID 2020 22 The tense political situation in Sudan aggravated ethnic in 2018 and six in 2017.53 Around 5,300 new displace- PART 1 PART and intercommunal disputes over scarce resources during ments were recorded, but the figure should be consid- the year. Clashes in East and Central Darfur and White ered an underestimate given the difficulties in gathering Nile state triggered nearly 10,000 new displacements data on highly localised incidents of violence. Many in May and June. Violence between Massalit and Arab people fled to neighbouring provinces or across the communities in West Darfur in the last two weeks of border into Tanzania. Others sought shelter on islands December also triggered more than 46,000. There were off the coast of Cabo Delgado.54 Violence and displace- 84,000 new conflict displacements recorded across the ment increased around the time of elections in October, country as a whole, and more than 2.1 million people and some IDPs were unable to vote in their registered living in internal displacement as of the end of the year. polling stations.55
The number of disaster displacements in 2019 was Kenneth also hit Comoros hard, destroying about among the highest recorded for Sudan, and the vast 4,600 homes and affecting people who were already majority were triggered by flooding in White Nile state.49 poor and vulnerable, mostly on the island of Grand The floods also led to a cholera outbreak in Blue Nile, Comore. Around 19,000 disaster displacements were Gezira, Khartoum and Sennar states (see White Nile recorded during the year. The situation on Comoros basin spotlight, p.27).50 received little media attention, but damages and losses were put at $185 million, and recovery and reconstruc- Disasters triggered 130,000 new displacements in tion costs could be as high as $277 million.56 Uganda in 2019, mainly in Bukedi, Sironko and Teso regions, and 74,000 in Kenya. The latter figure includes Idai struck Malawi before it strengthened into a trop- 10,000 recorded in West Pokot county, which was hit by ical cyclone, but it still triggered around 110,000 new landslides in November. The two countries also recorded displacements in Southern region. After later wreaking 2,300 and 1,800 displacements respectively triggered chaos in Mozambique it also triggered 51,000 in by localised intercommunal violence. Zimbabwe, mainly in the rural districts of Chimanimani and Chipinge in Manicaland province. Extensive crop The small landlocked countries of Burundi and Rwanda losses aggravated an already fragile food security situa- experienced significant disaster displacement. Storms, tion in the area after an extended period of drought.57 It heavy rains and landslides triggered 25,000 new was not possible to obtain drought displacement figures displacements in Burundi, which peaked in November either for Zimbabwe or the wider region, which has and December. About 6,000 people were evacu- been suffering episodes of severe drought for the last ated pre-emptively from high-risk areas of Rwanda in five years. However, evidence shows that its impacts December to escape the onset of heavy rains.51 have been widespread, and that they are playing a role in heightening people’s vulnerabilities.58 Southern Africa
Mozambique bore the brunt of two unusually powerful storms in 2019 that triggered hundreds of thousands of new displace- ments, and left around 132,000 people still displaced as of the end of the year. The impacts of cyclones Idai and Kenneth were also felt in Comoros, Malawi and Zimbabwe (see Mozambique spotlight, p.25).52
Kenneth triggered around 24,000 new displacements in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province, where its impacts were aggravated by an escalating conflict between government forces and jihadist militias. There were more than 160 attacks in 2019, compared with 60 23
SPOTLIGHT Insecurity has also spread to eastern and southern regions of neighbouring Niger and Burkina Faso, where different armed groups are using similar methods to THE SAHEL recruit and expand. The situation in Niger is of particular concern because the country sits at a dangerous cross- A deepening crisis of regional road of violence, surrounded on all sides by countries facing security crises. The eastern region of Diffa has dimensions suffered the effects of Boko Haram’s insurgency for a decade, and the government has also been forced to The Sahel region of sub-Saharan Africa suffered a sharp step up military activity and protection efforts in the increase in violence and mass displacement in 2019. A western regions of Tillaberi and Tahoua in response to number of jihadist groups have become increasingly escalating violence and displacement, particularly over active in border areas between Burkina Faso, Mali the last two years.63 and Niger, commonly known as the Liptako Gourma region, carrying out attacks, stoking communal and There are worrying signs that the dynamics of these two ethnic violence, and raising concerns about a major and separate conflict hotspots are becoming more inter- escalating security challenge with regional implications. twined, and that Niger may form a potential bridge Boko Haram’s insurgency and military offensives against between them.64 There were 57,000 new internal the group have also continued to force people to flee displacements, due to conflict and violence, recorded their homes in the Lake Chad basin.59 Around 854,000 in the country last year, of which 26,000 were in Tilla- new internal displacements were recorded across the beri and Tahoua. three countries in 2019. It is Burkina Faso, however, which faces the most The jihadist groups, which are local but globally oriented, alarming security situation.65 Violence spread from have spent years exploiting local grievances, laying the northern to eastern regions of the country in 2019, trig- ground for armed insurgencies to emerge and expand. gering 513,000 new displacements, a ten-fold increase Some of the disputes involve access to land and water, on the figure from 2018. Around 560,000 people were but many attacks are part of efforts to root out individ- living in internal displacement as of the end of the year. uals linked to one extremist group or another, or to take Communities have been generous in hosting displaced revenge for previous violence. The militants have also people, but the country’s infrastructure is poor, the taken advantage of porous borders and the absence of government has struggled to respond to IDPs’ largely government forces. They have forcibly recruited people, unmet needs and the international community has paid laid siege to villages, burned homes, destroyed the liveli- little attention to the crisis.66 hoods of whole communities and perpetrated severe human rights violations.60 Access to health services and education has deterio- rated, and IDPs are in urgent need of protection. There The security situation in Mali has been deteriorating are more than twice as many displaced women as men, since 2013.61 Islamist militants have regrouped in the and many have been subjected to abuse and sexual desert north and expanded into the fertile centre of the violence. There are particular concerns about the protec- country. They have gained ground by recruiting from tion of women in hard-to-reach areas where violence the Fulani community, nomadic herders left behind by goes unchecked.67 government and development programmes that favour agriculture. Long-standing grievances between Dogon The presence and influence of armed groups is growing farmers and Fulani herders over land and resources have in all three countries, and their shifting activities and the also increased considerably.62 More than 290,000 new complex dynamics of the situation make it difficult for internal displacements were recorded in 2019, most individual governments to rein in the insurgents. Military of them triggered by escalating communal violence efforts to do so have also triggered significant displace- in Mopti and Gao. The two regions currently host the ment. New initiatives intended to respond more effec- largest numbers of IDPs, of whom there were 208,000 tively to the crisis have emerged, including the creation across the country as a whole as of the end of the year. in 2017 of the Joint Force of the Group of Five of the
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1.1 m new displacements in Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, Niger, Nigeria and Togo as a result of conflict and violence in 2019.
New displacements by country in 2019:
Mali 513,000 Niger Burkina Faso Mali 284,000 Nigeria 248,000