HIGHLIGHTS
- Boko Haram-related insecurity displaces 2.5 million people; displacement increases significantly in Cameroon and Chad in recent months
- USAID/FFP provides nearly $27.2 million in new funding to WFP in December
- U.S. Ambassador to Chad James A. Knight redeclares a disaster due to the ongoing complex emergency
KEY DEVELOPMENTS
- Ongoing Boko Haram-related violence continues to result in insecurity and has displaced 2.5 million people in the Lake Chad Basin as of December. The UN and its partner agencies released the Sahel Regional Response Plan (SRP) on December 9, requesting a total of $1.98 billion dollars to address the Lake Chad Basin crisis, as well as other regional crises.
- In response to increasing displacement resulting from insecurity in neighboring Nigeria, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) initiated the displacement tracking matrix (DTM) system in Cameroon. As of mid-November, IOM had identified approximately 158,300 IDPs, including an estimated 124,000 people displaced by Boko Haram-related violence. The total represents a more than 33 percent increase since November 2014. IOM continues to utilize the DTM in other Boko Haram-affected countries to trace population movement.
- On December 14, U.S. Ambassador to Chad James A. Knight redeclared a disaster due to the ongoing complex emergency in the country, highlighting continued violence, food insecurity and malnutrition, and loss of livelihoods as requiring continued humanitarian support in Lake Chad Basin.
- In December, USAID/FFP provided nearly $27.2 million in additional funding for the Lake Chad Basin response, bringing total USAID/FFP funding in FY 2015 and 2016 for the response to more than $77.6 million. USAID/FFP-supported programs include in- kind food assistance, as well as funding for capacity building assistance, cash transfers, local and regional procurement of food and food vouchers in Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria.