These figures represent the number of refugees, asylum-seekers, refugee returnees, internally displaced people (IDP) and IDP returnees, as reported either by national authorities or UNHCR, in central Sahel (Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger), Chad and Mauritania. It does not necessarily imply individual identification, nor registration of each individual, and may include a degree of estimation, as per each government’s statistical data processing methodology.
In Far North Cameroon, the first Joint Committee for Peace and Social Cohesion has been established in Logone-Birni district. A new site to set up a third refugee camp has been identified in Chad. So ...
Publish date: 22 April 2022 (24 days ago)
Create date: 22 April 2022 (23 days ago)
For more information, you may consult UNHCR’s Note on the Impact of COVID 19 on the protection of displaced and stateless populations in West and Central Africa
Publish date: 13 May 2020 (2 years ago)
Create date: 13 May 2020 (2 years ago)
For more information, you may consult UNHCR’s Note on the Impact of COVID 19 on the protection of displaced and stateless populations in West and Central Africa
Publish date: 23 April 2020 (2 years ago)
Create date: 23 April 2020 (2 years ago)
The COVID-19 pandemic represents an extraordinary and unprecedented emergency for States in West and Central Africa. In response, Governments are taking necessary and legitimate measures to prevent th...
Publish date: 23 April 2020 (2 years ago)
Create date: 23 April 2020 (2 years ago)
On 19 September 2016,the Heads of State and Government and High Representatives have adopted the following political declaration to address the question of large movements of refugees and migrants.
Publish date: 19 September 2016 (5 years ago)
Create date: 13 March 2019 (3 years ago)
Refugees and migrants are entitled to the same universal human rights and fundamental freedoms, which must be respected, protected and fulfilled at all times. However, migrants and refugees are distin...
Publish date: 25 January 2019 (3 years ago)
Create date: 6 February 2019 (3 years ago)
Le HCR, l’Agence des Nations Unies pour les réfugiés remercie le Gouvernement et le peuple du Japon pour leur soutien à la réponse de protection et d’assistance aux personnes déplacées et aux communau...
Publish date: 19 March 2021 (1 year ago)
Create date: 19 March 2021 (1 year ago)
This briefing paper focuses on the evolving role of smugglers in West Africa’s migration economy, as well as migration and smuggling patterns in West Africa and between West and North Africa. The Mixe...
Publish date: 13 June 2019 (2 years ago)
Create date: 13 June 2019 (2 years ago)
L’insécurité persistante au sein et entre les pays frontaliers du bassin du lac Tchad a entraîné d’importants déplacements forcés de populations tant transfrontaliers qu’à l’intérieur du même pays. Au...
Publish date: 31 May 2017 (4 years ago)
Create date: 21 July 2017 (4 years ago)
COVID-19 leaves few lives and places untouched. But its impact is harshest for those groups who were already in vulnerable situations before the crisis. This is particularly true for many people on th...
Publish date: 3 June 2020 (1 year ago)
Create date: 3 June 2020 (1 year ago)
It is important that all actors, especially governments, ensure that international human rights, humanitarian and refugee law and standards are at the centre of all COVID-19 responses.
Publish date: 28 April 2020 (2 years ago)
Create date: 29 April 2020 (2 years ago)
As of 11 November 2019, a total of 45,215 asylum seekers and refugees are registered with UNHCR in Libya. A total of 2,351 individuals have been identified by UNHCR and its partners to be currently in...
Publish date: 13 November 2019 (2 years ago)
Create date: 13 November 2019 (2 years ago)
As of 4 November 2019, a total of 44,963 asylum seekers and refugees are registered with UNHCR in Libya. A total of 2,903 individuals have been identified by UNHCR and its partners to be currently in ...
Publish date: 6 November 2019 (2 years ago)
Create date: 6 November 2019 (2 years ago)
This update covers the period July-September 2019 and provides an overview of regional and country trends as well as of programming and advocacy work undertaken by UNHCR Operations in the field of Mix...
Publish date: 28 October 2019 (2 years ago)
Create date: 28 October 2019 (2 years ago)
This update covers the period May-June 2019 and provides an overview of regional and country trends as well as of programming and advocacy work undertaken by UNHCR Operations in the field of Mixed Mov...
Publish date: 15 October 2019 (2 years ago)
Create date: 13 August 2019 (2 years ago)
In Far North Cameroon, the first Joint Committee for Peace and Social Cohesion has been established in Logone-Birni district. A new site to set up a third refugee camp has been identified in Chad. So ...
Publish date: 22 April 2022 (24 days ago)
Create date: 22 April 2022 (23 days ago)
In Chad, relocations have resumed after a three-week break. Out-of-camp assistance has been strengthened. In Far North Cameroon, the humanitarian response is being strengthened through protection focu...
Publish date: 18 March 2022 (1 month ago)
Create date: 25 March 2022 (1 month ago)
In Chad, relocations are due to resume in the coming days after being paused during the reporting period. A third relocation site is being identified in collaboration with the authorities. In Far Nort...
Publish date: 18 February 2022 (2 months ago)
Create date: 24 February 2022 (2 months ago)
In Chad, 7,694 refugees have now been relocated and 5,651 have been individually registered. Relocations to the two camps continue, with construction nearly complete. The joint protection needs assess...
Publish date: 4 February 2022 (3 months ago)
Create date: 15 February 2022 (3 months ago)
In Chad, over 50% of planned relocations of refugees have now taken place. Both relocations and construction at the two sites continue. In Far North Cameroon, a joint protection needs assessment missi...
Publish date: 22 January 2022 (3 months ago)
Create date: 15 February 2022 (3 months ago)
In Chad, planned relocations of 12,000 refugees into the two new sites started on 5 January. 391 refugees have been relocated so far. In Far North Cameroon, internally displaced persons still find the...
Publish date: 6 January 2022 (4 months ago)
Create date: 7 January 2022 (4 months ago)
Some tensions can still be observed in the Chad – Cameroon border area. Despite this, calm has now been restored in all affected areas of Far North Cameroon. The situation in Chad is also calm. Two su...
Publish date: 31 December 2021 (4 months ago)
Create date: 3 January 2022 (4 months ago)
Pre-registration by UNHCR and Government is ongoing in Chad. So far, 26 out of 35 sites have been surveyed and 27,243 refugees have been pre-registered. Though the security situation is now calmer in ...
Publish date: 23 December 2021 (4 months ago)
Create date: 23 December 2021 (4 months ago)
A resurgence in inter-communal violence in Cameroon’s Far North region has forced over 80,000 persons to flee to neighbouring Chad, while over 15,000 are displaced within the country. Humanitarian acc...
Publish date: 16 December 2021 (5 months ago)
Create date: 16 December 2021 (4 months ago)
First biannual report from Project 21, a new regional interagency protection monitoring tool aimed at harmonising data collection and analysis between protection/humanitarian actors in the Central Sah...
Publish date: 19 May 2021 (11 months ago)
Create date: 19 May 2021 (11 months ago)
During the last two weeks, nearly 4,300 new Central African refugees have been registered in Chad. The movements result from ongoing clashes in the northern region of CAR between the Central African g...
Publish date: 8 May 2021 (1 year ago)
Create date: 8 May 2021 (1 year ago)
UNHCR Regional Bureau for West & Central Africa’s Deputy Director, met with the CAR President, the Ambassador of South Africa, representatives of the World Bank, the African Development Bank, the Afri...
Publish date: 21 April 2021 (1 year ago)
Create date: 21 April 2021 (1 year ago)
La région du Sahel central (Burkina Faso, Mali et Niger) fait face à une grave crise humanitaire et de protection, contraignant des millions de personnes à fuir leurs foyers. Les attaques indiscriminé...
Publish date: 1 February 2020 (2 years ago)
Create date: 8 June 2020 (1 year ago)
The Central Sahel region (Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger) is facing a severe humanitarian and protection crisis, pushing millions of people to flee their homes. Indiscriminate attacks by armed groups ag...
Publish date: 1 February 2020 (2 years ago)
Create date: 8 June 2020 (1 year ago)
UNHCR is implementing its strategy to assist thousands of refugees across countries in North and Sub-Saharan Africa, who have fled violence and persecution in their home countries and face increasing ...
Publish date: 27 June 2019 (2 years ago)
Create date: 27 June 2019 (2 years ago)
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