On 03 March 2024, armed bandits attacked the communities of Kanwa, Kadamasa, Takurawa, Marmaru and Bako Gebe in Zurmi ward of Zurmi LGA in Zamfara State. The attacks damaged and destroyed 35 shelters and the belongings of numerous households in the communities.
There were reports of 21 injuries and no fatalities were reported. The attacks affected 7,093 individuals in 1,012 households. The affected individuals included 3,973 children, 2,038 women and 1,082 men.
Of all the needs identified, food, shelter and non-food items were the most prevalent.

This profile provides information on the situation and vulnerabilities of Sudanese migrants in Libya, including those having arrived after the onset of conflict in mid-April 2023 and provides an update to a brief published in May 2023.

The information pertaining to migrants’ situation and vulnerabilities is based on quantitative individual interviews conducted by DTM Libya with 4,274 migrants in 2023, unless stated otherwise. The migrant population figures are based on data collected through key informant interviews.

On 18 February 2024, armed bandits attacked the communities of Doka in Idon ward of Kajuru LGA and Ungwan Fatuka in Gayam ward of Birnin Gwari LGA of Kaduna State. Forty-five shelters and properties of multiple households were damaged or destroyed in the communities as a result of the attacks. There were reports of 11 injuries and 11 fatalities. The attacks affected 4,826 individuals in 929 households. The affected individuals included 2,919 children, 1,070 women and 837 men. On 19 and 25 February 2024, farmer-herder clashes occurred in the communities of Kendev in Mbaikyor ward of Kwande LGA, Ortwav in Ikyaghev ward of Gwer LGA and Tse-Agena in Borikyo ward of Ukum LGA in Benue State. Two hundred and ninety shelters and properties of multiple households were damaged or destroyed in the communities as a result of the attacks. There were reports of 26 injuries and four fatalities. The attacks affected 1,747 individuals in 290 households. The affected individuals included 713 children, 565 women and 469 men.

Since October 8 there has been an increase in cross-border incidents between Israel and Lebanon, resulting in the displacement of people both within the South and elsewhere within the country. Since October 10, the Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) has been conducting the daily monitoring of population movements. The objective of the exercise is to inform preparedness and response planning.

The information included in this report is based on 56 key informant interviews which were conducted between 31 December 2023 and 05 January 2024 over the phone and in person. Informants interviewed included local elders and officials from municipal and social affairs committees, the Libyan Red Crescent Society as well as organizations for the coordination of services to displaced populations.

IOM Afghanistan's DTM Flow Monitoring activity, initiated at the beginning of 2024, seeks to quantify and better understand the mobility dynamics at Afghanistan’s borders. On 10 January 2024, DTM began deploying field teams at four border crossing points with the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRN) and Pakistan (PAK), expanding to another border crossing point Ghulam Khan as of 11 February (see map below for the locations of all five crossing points), to conduct two interlinked exercises. The first is a headcount of all individuals entering or leaving Afghanistan (including returnees), also called Flow Monitoring Counting (FMC), to gauge flow volume. The second is a survey of randomly selected Afghan national individuals or groups entering or leaving Afghanistan, also called the Flow Monitoring Survey (FMS), to understand the profiles, motivations, and vulnerabilities of the target population. This snapshot provides key findings combining various IOM data sources, including DTM Afghanistan’s FMC and FMS activities, DTM Pakistan’s Flow Monitoring of Afghan returnees, and IOM Afghanistan’s Cross-Border Post-Arrival Humanitarian Assistance (CB-PAHA) program, for the period 25 February to 2 March 2024. For more information about methodology, see the section in the last page of this report titled “IOM INFLOW DATA.” 

On 26 September 2023, the Ministry of Interior in Pakistan announced its decision to enact its “Illegal Foreigners’ Repatriation Plan (IFRP)”. Between 16 and 29 February 2024, 10,295 Afghan nationals returned to Afghanistan, including 6,320 through the Torkham BCP, 2,248 through the Chaman BCP, 1,727 through the Ghulam Khan BCP, while no Afghan nationals returned through the Badini BCP. In addition, border authorities deported 61 individuals due to a lack of valid documentation. Since 1 January 2024, IOM identified 37,090 returns at the four BCPs.

DTM REMAP implements the Baseline Mobility Assessment (BMA) in Tajikistan to track mobility, provide information on population estimates, geographic distribution of migrant workers and return migrants, reasons for migration and countries of return. Data is collected at the village level from key informants and direct observations.

Baseline Mobility Assessment (BMA) was conducted in all five provinces and all 12 districts/cities (including Khujand and Khorugh cities, and Rudaki, Kulob, Panj, Vanj, Vahdat, Bokhtar, Firdawsi, Sino, Shohmansur and Ismoili Somoni dsitricts). This assessment covered 919 communities through 2,816 key informant interviews. Based on the key informants' estimates, 2,581 international migrant workers were hosted in the assessed communities in Tajikistan during 2020 and 2023. Concurrently, 1,900 internal migrants were hosted in the assessed communities and 247,753 Tajik nationals were reported to be residing abroad as international migrants. In addition, 121,095 return migrants have returned from abroad.