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Monthly Mixed Migration Summary West Africa, January/February 2018

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Highlights in January and February

  • In Niger, increasing insecurity in the Tillabéri region has led to an increase in internal displacement in the region.
    The number of IDPs tripled in the region in February.

  • In January, hundreds of sub-Saharan migrants were deported to the Tamanrasset camp in Algeria and transported to Arlit, then Agadez in Niger. Approximately 3,000 people were deported, mostly Nigerien but also from Nigeria, Cameroon, Mali and Guinea.

  • Since the beginning of the year, anti-terror operations and clashes between farmers and herdsmen led to displacement of 80,000 civilians in Nigeria.

  • At summit in Brussels in February, donors from 20 EU countries increased pledges for the G5 Sahel joint force from 50 to 100 million euros. In total, 50 countries pledged 414 million euros for the G5 Sahel Joint Force.

  • Three years after the adoption of the Abidjan Declaration on the Eradication of Statelessness by the 15 Member states of ECOWAS, 700,000 people are still stateless in West Africa, according to UNHCR.

  • The EU adopted three new programmes under the EU Emergency Trust Fund for Africa, aiming to provide protection and voluntary humanitarian return for migrants stranded in Libya and support reintegration and resettlement for migrants from Niger, Chad, Cameroon and Burkina Faso.