Mauritania Internal Displacement Updates: Daily Conflict and Disaster Flows

Daily provisional data on new internal displacements in Mauritania caused by conflicts and disasters, updated by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre. The dataset focuses on displacement 'flows' and provides initial assessments from the beginning of 2025. Finalized estimates are curated separately in the annual Global Internal Displacement Database.

Use Cases

• Track daily displacement trends based on event data mentioned in the description
• Analyze conflict and disaster triggers for population movement based on the described cause categories
• Model provisional displacement flows for early humanitarian response based on the daily update schedule

Strengths

• Updated daily for timely insights
• Covers events from the beginning of 2025
• Provided by the authoritative Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)
• License is CC-BY-3.0-IGO

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Data is provisional and may be subject to double-counting without preprocessing

Provenance

Source

Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)

Collection Method

Aggregated from various publishers and sources for initial assessments.

Time Range

From the beginning of 2025 onward.

Freshness

Updated daily; last updated 2026-05-15.

Geography

Mauritania