Impact of the deteriorating security situation in Mali on border areas: Mauritania - Senegal - Guinea (GRANIT) (as of 30 November 2024)

Situation in Mali’s border areas
REACH’s Humanitarian Situation Monitoring in the Central Sahel revealed that between July and October 2024, 97 per cent of assessed localities in Tombouctou and 73 per cent of assessed localities in Ségou were affected by one or more shocks associated with insecurity, violence or looting. In the Goundam and Gourma- Rharous circles (Tombouctou), all (100 per cent) surveyed localities were affected. In the Niafunké circle, at the border with Mauritania, 97 per cent of the localities were affected. Other major shocks reported included flooding, which affected 72 per cent of localities in Tombouctou and 62 per cent in Ségou, and the sudden increase in basic market prices, which affected 58 per cent and 43 per cent of localities surveyed in Tombouctou and Ségou respectively.

Over the same period, key informants reported that people had been forced to flee or leave their locality in 34 per cent and 23 per cent of assessed localities in Tombouctou and Ségou respectively. Most of these displacements occurred within the same region, and in most cases the proportion of people who had left their locality did not exceed 25 per cent of each locality’s population. However, in 24 per cent of localities where population movements were reported in Ségou region, the proportion of people who had fled or left their locality was estimated to be over 50 per cent.