West and Central Africa — Liptako Gourma Crisis Monthly Dashboard 51 (July 2024)

As of July 2024, 3,141,928 individuals have been displaced, including 2,616,570 internally displaced persons (83% of the displaced population) and 525,358 refugees (17% of the displaced population). Sixty-seven per cent of the displaced populations (2,101,591 individuals) were located in Burkina Faso, while 14 per cent resided in Mali (424,318 individuals), 11 per cent in Niger (351,560 individuals) and 4 per cent in Mauritania (133,086 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 July, 131,373 individuals were affected by displacement within the four countries (22,613 in Benin, 55,005 in Côte d’Ivoire, 7,230 in Ghana and 46,525 in Togo) of which 34,088 were internally displaced.