Sudan – Emergency Event Tracking Report Ag Geneina, West Darfur 015 (2021)

DTM teams activated Emergency Event Tracking (EET) to monitor the displacement of individuals affected by inter-communal conflict between Masalit and Arab tribes. Clashes initially erupted on 16 January 2021 in the Krinding area of Ag Geneina town, West Darfur. Since 3 April 2021, inter-communal conflict has escalated in the Hai Eljabal area of Ag Geneina town, West Darfur, resulting in additional displacement. 

The fifteenth update has revisited/verified the entire caseload (across all displacement sites), and has been crosschecked with the Humanitarian Aid Commission (HAC) and partners to estimate a total number of 151,437 individuals (30,336 households) seeking shelter in Ag Geneina and its surrounding villages. The IDP caseload was displaced from Krinding 1 and 2 IDP camps (37%), Hai Eljabal area (26%), Sultan House area (10%) and other sites nearby (27%). Since the fourteenth update, there has been an eight per cent decrease in displacement figures (inclusive of a decrease of 15,911 individuals across 23 sites and an increase of 2,363 individuals across five sites).