Highlights
On Saturday October 10th, a series of suicide attacks resulted in 43 dead and some 50 injured, among them 22 children, in Baga Sola and in the spontaneous site of Kousseri where 7,300 IDPs live.
Following these attacks, the authorities are planning to relocate IDP sites of Kousseri and Kafia and the refugee camp of Dar es Salaam for security reasons. The humanitarian community has expressed serious concerns about this potential relocation.
The estimated number of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) who arrived since July 21st stands at 52,321, a decrease of about 9% compared with prior estimates. This difference can be explained by IOM profiling in the spontaneous sites around Baga Sola.
Some of the IDPs in Kousseri and Kafia have ostensibly left these sites because of intercommunal tensions and fear of reprisals. So far, the humanitarian community does not have a precise vision of their number nor their new location.
Following the suicide attacks of October 10th, assistance activities were temporarily suspended.
The most urgent needs are in shelter, food security (almost 40,000 people received no assistance or have already run out of the rations they were supplied), water, hygiene and sanitation (90% did not benefit from hygiene-related activities), protection and health.
