West and Central Africa — Liptako Gourma Crisis Monthly Dashboard 53 (September 2024)

As of September 2024, 3,187,793 individuals have been displaced, including 2,616,570 internally displaced persons (82% of the displaced population) and 571,223 refugees (18% of the displaced population). Sixty-six per cent of the displaced populations (2,101,962 individuals) were located in Burkina Faso, while 14 per cent resided in Mali (451,844 individuals), 11 per cent in Niger (352,718 individuals) and 4 per cent in Mauritania (136,954 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 September, 144,315 individuals were affected by displacement within the four countries (25,929 in Benin, 59,937 in Côte d’Ivoire, 7,242 in Ghana and 51,207 in Togo) of which 34,088 were internally displaced.