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1,713,771* IDPs in Nigeria
*1.65 million displaced by the insurgency
(NEMA/IOM DTM Report, Round XIX, October 2017)

206,177 Nigerian refugees displaced by the insurgency in Cameroon, Chad and Niger as of 31 October 2017 (or latest figures available).

FUNDING
USD 179.5 M requested for the Nigeria situation
Funded 28% 50.4 M
Funding gap 72% 129.1 M

HIGHLIGHTS AND OPERATIONAL CONTEXT

• In Nigeria the security situation was marked by increase in the number of attacks. More than 50 persons (civilian and military) were killed in either ambushes or suicide attacks, dozens more were injured and property destroyed. Roads are being closed as a result making humanitarians intervention more difficult. In Cameroon, attacks and incursions by Boko Haram (BH) decreased by more than half in number since August, to 17 incidents, but these resulted in more civilian deaths. As reports have shown in recent months, BH have been focusing their attacks on civilians, farmers and small villages.
  Land mine victims were also recorded, raising concern over return movements and humanitarian access but other protection incidents such as kidnappings also saw a decline in frequency. The number of fighters surrendering to Cameroonian authorities rose as a result of the Government’s deradicalization efforts. In Chad, incursions by suspected BH militants took place on 16 and 19 October in Garoua, a small locality situated 20 km south-west of Baga Sola. Chadian military elements were present on 19 October and are reported to have killed one militant and arrested three others. In Niger, very minor incidents were reported, making October one of the most stable months of 2017. Despite continuing restrictions on UN staff movement, no interruptions in assistance were reported.

• As part of the implementation of the Tripartite Agreement signed between the governments of Cameroon, Nigeria and UNHCR on the voluntary repatriation of Nigerian refugees living in Cameroon,
  UNHCR Cameroon undertook a mission to Nigeria during the first week of October. Information collected will be shared with refugees living in Cameroon in the context of ongoing awareness-raising sessions carried out to ensure returns in accordance with the Agreement. Additionally, in Nigeria, on 28 October, a 16 member Tripartite mission assessment team composed of representatives from the Nigerian Government visited IDP camps in Maiduguri. Both missions aimed to assess conditions in returns areas. Similar visits will take place in Yobe and Adamawa States.

• In Chad, from 2-4 October, the French Ambassador to Chad His Excellency Philippe Lacoste and the UNHCR Representative in Chad went to the Lac region to visit refugees, IDPs and their hosts. The mission was briefed on the Lac region’s strong agro-pastoral potential and on the challenges it faces.

• After ECOWAS member states signed the Abidjan Declaration on statelessness in February 2015 and the Banjul Action Plan in May 2017, Niger for its part completed the elaboration of its National Action Plan on 27 October, within the context of the Global Action Plan to End Statelessness. Therd anniversary of the #IBELONG campaign will be celebrated on 4 November.