Displacement events
Each entry covers one named event: what happened, how it changed the displacement picture, and where the monitoring agencies publish the current figures. We describe the event and link to the source. We do not restate numbers we have not verified.
The siege of El Fasher, North Darfur
El Fasher, North Darfur, Sudan
The siege of El Fasher in North Darfur cut the last major town in Darfur held outside Rapid Support Forces control off from routine humanitarian access, pushing residents and people sheltering in nearby camps into repeated secondary displacement across Darfur and towards Chad.
Read the event pageThe M23 offensive on Goma, North Kivu
Goma and Nyiragongo territory, North Kivu, DR Congo
The M23 advance on Goma emptied displacement sites ringing the city within days, sending people into the city itself, across the border into Rwanda, and back towards areas they had fled earlier, which makes net displacement figures for North Kivu unusually volatile.
Read the event pageThe Maiduguri floods, Borno State
Maiduguri and Jere, Borno State, Nigeria
Flooding in Maiduguri after a dam failure inundated large parts of a city that was already hosting people displaced by conflict in northeast Nigeria, producing a rare case of climate displacement stacked directly on top of conflict displacement in the same urban area.
Read the event pageDisplacement in Borno, Zamfara and the Lake Chad Basin
Borno State, Zamfara State and the Nigerian Lake Chad Basin
Nigeria carries three distinct displacement crises at once: armed conflict in Borno and the wider northeast, armed banditry and mass abduction in Zamfara and the northwest, and cross border displacement around the Lake Chad Basin. Each is monitored separately, so figures are not interchangeable.
Read the event pageGang control and displacement in Port-au-Prince
Port-au-Prince metropolitan area, Haiti
Armed group control of large parts of Port-au-Prince displaced people within the city itself and then outward to departments that had previously received little displacement, making Haiti one of the fastest changing urban displacement situations tracked anywhere.
Read the event pageRenewed attacks in Cabo Delgado
Cabo Delgado province, Mozambique
Renewed insurgent attacks across districts of Cabo Delgado interrupted a return movement that had been under way for several years, displacing families who had recently gone home and producing overlapping return and displacement flows in the same districts.
Read the event pageReturn movements after the Gaza ceasefire
Gaza Strip
After the Gaza ceasefire took effect, large numbers of people moved back towards northern Gaza. Because most housing there was damaged or destroyed, agencies record these movements as returns to place rather than as an end of displacement.
Read the event pageFrontline evacuations in eastern Ukraine
Donetsk, Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia oblasts, Ukraine
Repeated mandatory and voluntary evacuations from settlements close to the front line in eastern Ukraine move people westward in waves. Because families often move several times and some return between waves, oblast level totals shift without the national figure changing much.
Read the event pageDisplacement around the Marib front line, Yemen
Marib governorate, Yemen
Marib hosts one of the largest concentrations of internally displaced people in Yemen, built up over years of frontline fighting. Sites there are informal and dispersed, so tracking relies on site assessments rather than registration lists.
Read the event pageDisplacement in Rakhine State, Myanmar
Rakhine State, Myanmar
Fighting across Rakhine State displaced people inside a state that already held long standing camps for Rohingya communities. Access restrictions and telecommunications blackouts mean figures for Rakhine are published with unusually wide uncertainty.
Read the event pageConflict displacement in Amhara, Ethiopia
Amhara region, Ethiopia
Fighting in Amhara displaced people in a region that had itself hosted people displaced by the earlier conflict in northern Ethiopia. Movement is largely into host communities rather than camps, which makes it harder to see in site based tracking.
Read the event pageDrought and eviction displacement in Baidoa, Somalia
Baidoa, South West State, Somalia
Baidoa absorbed large numbers of rural households displaced by drought and insecurity into hundreds of small informal sites. Many of those households are then displaced again by eviction from private land, producing repeat displacement inside the same town.
Read the event pageDisplacement in Catatumbo, Colombia
Catatumbo, Norte de Santander, Colombia
Fighting between armed groups in the Catatumbo region displaced households towards municipal centres and across the border area with Venezuela. Confinement, where communities cannot leave but are cut off from services, runs alongside displacement here.
Read the event pageDisplacement and returns in southern Lebanon
South Lebanon, Nabatieh and Beirut southern suburbs, Lebanon
Hostilities along the southern border displaced households northward, and a later reduction in fighting allowed large scale return towards damaged villages. Lebanon also hosts a large refugee population, so displacement and hosting figures overlap.
Read the event pageSudan spillover into Chad and the Central African Republic
Eastern Chad and Vakaga prefecture, Central African Republic
The war in Sudan pushed refugees and returning nationals into eastern Chad and the northeast of the Central African Republic, two of the least serviced border areas in the region. Arrivals include Sudanese refugees and nationals of both countries returning under duress.
Read the event pageTown blockades in Burkina Faso
Sahel, Centre Nord and Est regions, Burkina Faso
Armed groups have besieged towns across northern and eastern Burkina Faso, cutting road access and trapping residents alongside people who had already fled surrounding villages. Blockades restrict both movement out and assistance in.
Read the event pageDisplacement in Tillaberi and Diffa, Niger
Tillaberi and Diffa regions, Niger
Niger absorbs displacement from two separate crises at once, insecurity in the tri border area affecting Tillaberi and the Lake Chad basin conflict affecting Diffa. Both regions host refugees, returnees and internally displaced people in the same villages.
Read the event pageReturn movements in Syria after the change of government
Idlib, Aleppo, Homs and Damascus, Syria
The change of government in Syria opened routes that had been closed for years, and movement began both from camps in the northwest towards home areas and from neighbouring countries back into Syria. Camp departures and new displacement are recorded at the same time.
Read the event pageHow this index is maintained
Events are added when a distinct, named incident changes the displacement picture in a tracked country. Descriptions are qualitative. Population figures are only shown on this site when a verified source and quotation are recorded in our source registry, which you can review on the methodology page.