Kano State

Kaduna State

Plateau State

Nasarawa State

Benue State

Overview

On 15 April 2023, armed clashes erupted between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in multiple cities across Sudan. Clashes initially took place in cities across Northern and Khartoum states, later spreading across the Darfur and Kordofan regions.

Highlights

• DTM Sudan estimates that 6,467,700 individuals (1,289,341 households) were recently internally displaced.
• The IDP caseload was observed in 6,968 locations across all of Sudan’s 18 states. 
• The highest proportions of IDPs were observed across South Darfur (12%), River Nile (11%), and East Darfur (10%).
• Field teams reported that the IDPs observed were originally displaced from twelve states. The majority (3,564,234 IDPs, 55%) were reportedly displaced from Khartoum state; followed by South Darfur (15%), North Darfur (9%), Aj Jazirah (8%), Central Darfur (5%), West Darfur (4%), South Kordofan (2%), East Darfur (1%), West Kordofan (1%), North Kordofan (1%), Sennar (<1%) and White Nile (<1%).
• IOM-DTM also reported that an estimated 1,918,309 mixed cross-border movements were made into neighbouring countries.
• This product provides brief insights into those displaced in Sudan post-15 April 2023. For more granular information on the IDP caseload and the displacement context, please see IOM-DTM's Monthly Displacement Overview 06. 

This information was collected following armed attacks that occurred on 8 and 9 March 2024 in the 5th municipality section Pays Pourri, in the municipality of Ganthier located in the West department. A total of 1,470 persons (400 households) were displaced following these attacks. All of them took refuge with relatives, in host families. It should be noted that in less than 3 months this municipality (and the same municipality section) suffered two armed attacks whereas in the past it had almost never suffered any (see ETT 32.1 for more details on the attack that occurred in December 2023).

Since 29 February 2024, several neighborhoods in the Metropolitan Area of Port-au-Prince (MAPAP), the capital of Haiti, have been targeted by increased armed attacks. Nearly 15,000 people were displaced following these attacks (see ETT 39.1). In addition to creating displacement within the MAPAP, these attacks are pushing more and more people to leave the capital to find refuge in provinces, taking the risks of passing through routes controlled by gangs. In order to monitor these movements towards the provinces and inform appropriate response strategies, DTM has launched data collections at several of the most used bus stations in the capital (see page 4 for more details on the methodology). Since the start of this activity, on 8 March, until 10 March, this activity allowed to observe the movements of 7,672 people leaving the MAPAP (see pages 2 and 3 for more details on the profile of these people ). The majority of them (66%) took means of transport heading towards the Grand Sud departments (Grande’Anse, South, Nippes and South-East). It should be noted that this region already hosts more than 116,000 people who had in vast majority, fled the MAPAP in recent months (see the report on displacement in the Grand Sud).