West and Central Africa — Liptako Gourma Crisis Monthly Dashboard 54 (October 2024)

As of October 2024, 3,213,495 individuals have been displaced, including 2,622,002 internally displaced persons (82% of the displaced population) and 591,493 refugees (18% of the displaced population). Sixty-five per cent of the displaced populations (2,101,972 individuals) were located in Burkina Faso, while 14 per cent resided in Mali (451,844 individuals), 11 per cent in Niger (366,991 individuals) and 4 per cent in Mauritania (140,756 individuals). The crisis’ recent spill over to coastal countries, namely Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Togo and Benin, shows growing number of refugees coming from the Central Sahel and populations internally displaced. As of October, 151,932 individuals were affected by displacement within the four countries (25,848 in Benin, 62,078 in Côte d’Ivoire, 7,242 in Ghana and 56,764 in Togo) of which 25,830 were internally displaced.