IDU: Daily Updates on Conflict and Disaster Displacements in Cameroon

Conflict and disaster population movement data for Cameroon provided by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre. The dataset offers provisional daily updates on new internal displacements, known as flows, with information sourced from various publishers. It contains initial assessments of displacements reported since the beginning of 2025.

Use Cases

• Monitor daily displacement flows based on provisional event data.
• Analyze displacement trends from conflict and disasters based on daily updates.
• Cross-reference provisional IDU data with validated annual GIDD stock estimates.

Strengths

• Data is updated daily, providing timely insights.
• Provisional information reflects the most recent available data.
• License is CC-BY-3.0-IGO, allowing for open use.

Limitations

• Data is provisional and requires validation against the annual GIDD database.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Preprocessing is required to avoid double-counting, as noted in the description.

Provenance

Source

Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)

Collection Method

Aggregated from various publishers or sources.

Time Range

Displacements reported since the beginning of 2025.

Freshness

Updated daily; last updated 2026-05-15.

Geography

Cameroon