LAKE BASIN Crisis Overview As of 23 January 2019 Background Population movement and violent incidents in the most affected areas Displacement trend Total IDPs and refugees since October 2017 The Lake Chad Basin humanitarian emergency Internally Displaced Persons1 Refugees2 is among the most severe in the world. The IDPs Refugees CHAD CHAD protracted conflict has uprooted around 2.5 NIGER Diffa million people, stoked high levels of hunger and Diffa in million in thousand malnutrition, and subjected millions of civilians Lac 2,5 250 to extreme hardship. Insecurity is hampering Borno the resumption of normal life, leaving 2,0 Yobe Yobe 200 conflict-affected families dependent on 1,5 humanitarian assistance for survival. Borno 1,0 150 Recent developments Oct Dec 2017 2018 More than 9,000 people have fled to ’s Far-North NIGERIA Far-North Far North region after an armed raid on 14 3 January on Rann town in neighbouring Nigeria. Adamawa Adamawa Incidents trend Thousands among them were forced back by Total of violent incidents and deaths reported Cameroonian authorities, according to UNHCR since October 2017 which voiced alarm over the refoulement and urged Yaoundé to halt further forced returns and CAMEROON Incidents Deaths 5k 25 50 150 300k 1k 5 20 50 90k CAMEROON continue allowing refugees to seek safety. Some 267 other Nigerian refugees who had fled 40 400 Nigeria violence in 2014 had also been forced back. 3 6 Latest incidents Barouwa Accessible territories 30 300 Cameroon currently hosts around 100,000 Toumour Cameroon 20034.0155 Nigerian refugees. Some 6,000 Nigerians have Bague CHAD Diffa CHAD 20 also fled the recent hostilities to Chad’s western NIGER Diffa NIGER Wandori Lac 10 100 Lac region. Armed attacks are on the rise in Damaram Baga Lac Chad 48.8131 north-east Nigeria. The raid on Rann, home to Balimiri Tchika 0 Oct Dec0 Monguno Yobe 76,000 internally displaced people, also Bodo Borno 2017 2018 Monguno Ngala Niger 12641.7 disrupted humanitarian operations. The Yobe Molai Gambaru attackers destroyed a clinic, warehouses Mainok 2018 Funding status (in million US$)� Zigague stocking relief supplies and aid workers’ Bujimirum Borno Total funded: 853M (54%) houses. Fourteen aid workers have been Vouzi Gogo withdrawn after the attack. The latest surge in Chibok Maroua Igawa NIGERIA Extreme-Nord NIGERIA Far-North Nigeria 699 I 67% violence has also forced the pull out of around Mbolakel Makalama 260 aid workers from three local government Adamawa Adamawa areas1% in north-east4% Nigeria.3% It was4% the largest Cameroon 44 I 23% withdrawal of humanitarian workers since aid Not accessible response was scaled up in 2016. While aid Aba Accessible LGAs Chad 58 I 32% workers have started to return to some areas, with restrictions CAMEROON CAMEROON XX % funded insecurity is preventing a full resumption of Funded Accessible 52 I 31% humanitarian operations. Incidents Niger Unmet 17.4Ma 10.7M 2.5M4 490,0006 3.6M7 US$1.58B people living in affected areas people in need people displaced children suffering from severe food insecure people at crisis requirements for 2018 (IDPs, refugees and returnees) acute malnutrition and emergency levels 168 179 189 1.05B CMR NER NGA TCD CMR NER NGA TCD CMR NER NGA TCD CMR NER NGA TCD CMR NER NGA TCD 4M 704k 12M 518k 2.1M 419k 7.7M 500k 335k 249k 1.75M 174k 24k 16k 439k 11k 1.5M 408k 1.7M 25k NER TCD CMR NGA Sources: (1) CMR DTM Round 16, Nigeria DTM Round 25, doesn’t include ood-related IDPs in Nigeria and Cameroon, Chad (CCCM), Niger (DREC). (2) UNHCR and Government. (3) ACLED database as of 22 Jan 2019. (4) Returnees refers to Cameroonian, Chadian and Nigerien nationals who have ed from Nigeria and are now displaced in their home conutries. (5) Nigeria DTM Round 25 - Inaccessible areas to humanitarian partners due to security measures. (6) UNICEF. (7) Cadre Harmonisé Nov 2018, current situation Oct-Dec 2018 (Chad, Nigeria), CFSVA 2017 (Cameroon), HNO 2018 (Niger). (8) FTS as of 22 January 2019. Feedback: [email protected], [email protected] Website: wca.humanitarianresponse.info http://reliefweb.int/topics/lake-chad-basincrisiscrise-du-bassin-du-lac-tchad - http://bit.ly/2R9rTVc Twitter: @OCHAROWCA. Disclaimer: (a) The information in the snapshot applies to areas most aected by Boko Haram-related violence - Cameroon (Far-North), Chad (Lac), Niger (Dia) and Nigeria (Adamawa, Borno and Yobe). The boundaries ans names shown and the designations used on these maps do not imply o cial endorsement or acceptance by the