www.internal-displacement.org INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT UPDATEIssue 23: 27 July – 23 August 2017 Any boundaries, names or other designations shown on the above map do not imply IDMC’s official endorsement or acceptance of them. Help us improve our internal displacement updates! Kindly take a couple of minutes to answer this survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/C9SQXTS FEATURE CONTEXT More than 391,000 people (91,000 households) were displaced Nepal by monsoon rains between 11 and 20 August in 28 of Nepal’s 75 districts, concentrated in the eastern, central and western AFFECTED Central, eastern and western regions. The overall rain reached its heaviest in 15 years, trig- AREAS regions gering large-scale flooding and landslides. It damaged crops and created shortages in safe drinking water, affecting over Disaster CAUSE OF 6 million people in total (Aljazeera, 14 August 2017; NRCS, 17 DISPLACEMENT August 2017; UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for FIGURES More than 391,000 new Nepal, 20 August 2017). Earlier floods and landslides displaced displacements between 11 and about 190 people across 41 districts between 8 and 28 July 20 August 2017 (OCHA, 28 July 2017). Civil Affairs, 4 August 2017; Ministry of Civil Affairs, 4 August EAST ASIA AND PACIFIC 2017; Xinhua, 13 August 2017; Ministry of Civil Affairs, 14 August 2017). Cambodia Northeast China AFFECTED Kratie, Oddar Meanchey, Preah In Northeast China, more than 192,000 people were evac- AREAS Vihear and Tbong Khmum uated between 2 and 9 August following heavy rainfall and provinces flooding in the provinces of Heilongjiang, Liaoning and Jilin. This notably included about 188,000 people who were evacu- CAUSE OF Disaster DISPLACEMENT ated due to heavy rains and storms in Liaoning province alone (Xinhua, 7 August 2017, Ministry of Civil Affairs, 8 August FIGURES As many as 4,150 new disaster 2017; Ministry of Civil Affairs, 8 August 2017; Ministry of Civil displacements between 26 July Affairs, 11 August 2017). and 1 August CONTEXT Northwest China In Northwest China, around 2,300 people were evacuated About 1,900 people (410 households) were evacuated in between 4 and 23 August, mostly due to flooding in Gansu, Preah Vihear between 26 and 31 July following days of severe Qinghai and Xinjiang provinces. About 430 people were evac- weather which led to flooding. As many as 1,600 people uated following a 6.6 magnitude earthquake that destroyed had returned home by 1 August after water levels rapidly 200 houses in Xinjiang province (Ministry of Civil Affairs, 7 receded (Cambodia Daily, 1 August 2017). More than 870 August 2017; Ministry of Civil Affairs, 9 August 2017; Xinhua, people were evacuated from Trapaing Prasat district in Oddar 11 August 2017; Ministry of Civil Affairs, 14 August 2017; Meanchey province between 27 and 28 July due to severe Ministry of Civil Affairs, 23 August 2017). flooding Khmer( Times, 28 July 2017). About 1,380 people in the Tbong Khmum province were evacuated to elevated areas South Central between 31 July and 1 August as the Mekong river spilled In South Central China, more than 141,000 people were evac- over, flooding homes Cambodia( Daily, 1 August 2017). An uated between 31 July and 23 August from flooding, heavy unknown number of people were displaced due to similar rainfall and storms in the provinces of Guangdong, Guangxi, spillovers in Prek Prasap district, Kratie province (The Phnom Henan, Hubei and Hunan. About 27,000 of those displaced Penh Post, 31 July 2017). were evacuated in Guangdong province due to the effects of Typhoon Hato, the 13th typhoon this year. It is the most powerful storm to hit the southern Chinese region around China Hong Kong in more than half a century and the strongest since 1968 to hit Macau (Ministry of Civil Affairs, 2 August 2017; AFFECTED Country-wide Ministry of Civil Affairs, 4 August 2017; Ministry of Civil Affairs, AREAS 9 August 2017; Ministry of Civil Affairs, 15 August, 2017; Xinhua, 17 August 2017; Xinhua, 18 August 2017; Xinhua, Disaster CAUSE OF 23 August 2017; CBC News, 23 August 2017; Reuters, 23 DISPLACEMENT August 2017). FIGURES More than 654,000 new disaster displacements between 24 July Southwest China and 23 August In Southwest China, more than 104,000 people were evac- CONTEXT uated between 30 July and 21 August because of flooding, heavy rainfall and an earthquake. Of these, as many as 89,000 were evacuated in Sichuan following the 7.0 magnitude earth- East China quake on 8 August and more than 15,000 people were evac- In East China, more than 207,000 people were evacuated uated because of flooding in Chongqing, Guizhou, Sichuan, between 31 July and 21 August because of flooding and Tibet and Yunnan provinces (Ministry of Civil Affairs, 2 August heavy rainfall in the provinces of Fujian, Jiangxi and Shandong. 2017; Ministry of Civil Affairs, 4 August 2017; Ministry of Civil As many as 196,000 of these displacements were due to Affairs, 7 August 2017; Ministry of Civil Affairs, 9 August 2017; the effects of Typhoon Nesat and Haitang (Ministry of Civil Ministry of Civil Affairs, 14 August 2017; Ministry of Civil Affairs, 4 August 2017; Ministry of Civil Affairs, 9 August Affairs, 16 August 2017; Ministry of Civil Affairs, 17 August 2017; Ministry of Civil Affairs, 15 August 2017; Ministry of Civil 2017; Ministry of Civil Affairs, 21 August 2017). Affairs, 21 August 2017; Xinhua, 22 August 2017). North China In North China, about 8,000 people were evacuated between 24 July and 4 August due to flooding, heavy rain and storms in the provinces of Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Hebei and the municipality of Beijing. About 4,300 of those displaced were evacuated due to the effects of Typhoon Nesat and Haitang that brought on the flooding and heavy rain in Hebei and Inner Mongolia (Ministry of Civil Affairs, 4 August 2017; Ministry of 2 Myanmar island on 30 July (National Fire Agency, 30 July 2017). Typhoon Haitang was the second of two typhoons to hit the island over AFFECTED Kachin state the period, making it the first time in 50 years that simulta- AREAS neous storm alerts were issued (Thomson Reuters Foundation News, 31 July 2017). CAUSE OF Conflict DISPLACEMENT FIGURES More than 1,000 new conflict MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA displacements between 10 and 15 August Iraq CONTEXT AFFECTED Kirkuk, Ninewa, Salah al Din More than 1,000 people were displaced between 10 and 15 AREAS governorates August by fighting between the military and Kachin Inde- Conflict pendence Army near Kasung village in Moegaung Township, CAUSE OF DISPLACEMENT Kachin State. Those displaced fled towards Namti town where they are staying in two church sites while receiving food, water FIGURES As many as 38,000 new conflict and relief items (OCHA, 16 August 2017). displacements between 26 July and 23 August CONTEXT Philippines As many as 38,000 people were displaced to IDP camps around AFFECTED Calabarzon, CAR, MIMAROPA, Mosul between 26 July and 23 August arriving from Al Tafar, AREAS Misamis Oriental, National Mosul, and from the governorates of Kirkuk and Salah al Din Capital region, Negros Oriental (UNHCR Flash Updates between 30 July and 23 August 2017). and regions I and III The newly displaced from Al Tafar, as many as 20,000 people, CAUSE OF Conflict, Disaster arrived having fled threats of intensified fighting in the Islamic DISPLACEMENT State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) stronghold which has been surrounded by Iraqi forces since late June (Reuters, 18 August About 1,900 new disaster FIGURES 2017; UNHCR, 23 August 2017; UNHCR, 23 August 2017). The displacements between 25 July second group, about 1,500 people, arrived from Kirkuk and and 14 August; about 740 new Salah al Din governorates having fled fighting between ISIL conflict displacements between and the Iraqi army (UNHCR 30 July 2017; UNHCR, 6 August 21 July and 11 August 2017; UNHCR, 14 August 2017). The third, more than 16,000 CONTEXT people came from return areas in Mosul, their latest displace- About 1,900 people were evacuated between 25 July and ment brought on by an inability to reintegrate due to financial 14 August because of heavy rainfall from Tropical Storm constraints, destroyed homes, lack of livelihood opportunities, Nesat that affected six of the Philippines’ seventeen regions and high prices for rent and basic needs (UNHCR, 17 August (NDRRMC, 3 August 2017; DROMIC, 14 August 2017). 2017; UNHCR, 6 August 2017; UNHCR 30 July 2017). Violence forced about 240 people to flee between 21 and 31 July, as the Philippines National Police clashed with the New People’s Army in Guihulngan City, Negros Oriental (DROMIC, Syria 31 July 2017). An additional 500 people were forced to evac- uate in Misamis Oriental between 8 and 11 August because AFFECTED Raqqa governorate of intimidation and recruitment by the New People’s Army AREAS (Philippines Information Agency, 11 August 2017). CAUSE OF Conflict DISPLACEMENT Taiwan FIGURES As many as 28,000 new conflict displacements between 28 July and 17 August AFFECTED Country-wide AREAS CONTEXT Disaster CAUSE OF As many as 28,000 people were displaced from Raqqa city DISPLACEMENT between 28 July and 17 August due to the ongoing Syrian FIGURES As many as 13,000 new disaster Democratic Forces’ offensive against ISIL. Eighteen of Raqqa’s displacements between 28 and twenty-four neighbourhoods are now depopulated and the 30 July pre-war population of 220,000 down to 22,000. ISIL continues CONTEXT to control the movement of residents in areas under its control, including through forced relocations. The situation in the city As many as 13,000 people were evacuated across Taiwan remains dire with severe shortages of food, medicine, and between 28 and 30 July after Typhoon Haitang made landfall water as well as continuous airstrikes and shelling (REACH, 28 bringing torrential rains to the south and southeast of the July 2017; REACH, 17 August 2017; UNHCR, 17 August 2017).