Lake Chad Basin: Crisis Overview (as of 11 January 2017)

Background

Population movement and violent incidents in the most affected areas Around 17 million people live in the affected areas across the four Lake Chad basin countries. The number of displaced people has tripled over the last two years. Most of the displaced families are sheltered by communities that count among the world's poorest and most vulnerable. Food insecurity and malnutrition have reached critical levels.

Recent developments

The total number of IDPs in north-east Nigeria's most affected Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states now stands at 1.63 million internally displaced people after a decrease by 50,000, noted in IOM's December displacement tracking. Assessments and missions to newly-accessible areas identified severe needs in several LGAs in Borno state. Large numbers of IDPs who have recently moved to sites in Monguno, Banki, Baga and Rann are in urgent need of assistance. In Rann, hosting some 43,000 IDPs, rates of severe acute malnutrition and mortality are critically high. In December, partners delivered food or cash assistance to more than one million people in in north-east Nigeria alone. On 16 December, the Nigeria Regional Refugee Response Plan was launched requesting US$241 million to help some 460,000 people in 2017 in Cameroon, Chad, and Niger. The Humanitarian Response Plans (H RPs) appeal for a total US$1.5 billion to assist 8.2 million people across the Lake Chad Basin. At the end of the year, the US$739 million requirement of he 2016 response plans was funded at 53 per cent.