PRISM Alerts · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Alert 10
Democratic Republic of the Congo Conflict displacement worsening 13 October 2026

Democratic Republic of the Congo: 273,242 conflict-driven internal displacements between 2026-08-01 and 2026-08-31 (IDMC IDU)

Conflict-driven internal displacements per month (people)

According to IDMC's Internal Displacement Updates, between 1 and 31 August 2026 the Democratic Republic of the Congo recorded 273,242 conflict-driven internal displacements across 8 events. The alert was triggered because this monthly total exceeded the fixed threshold of 50,000 displacements per calendar month, and the total is below the 90th percentile of 975,962 in the country's own monthly record over 19 months. The largest individual records in the period, each between 45,700 and 48,000, relate to South Kivu and North Kivu and are attributed to OCHA.

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How this fired

RuleDisplacement in a month against the country's own record
Period2026-08-01 to 2026-08-31
Displacement in the month273,242
Events in the month8
Months of history compared19
90th percentile of that history975,962
Judged againstan absolute floor of 50,000; the 90th percentile of the country's own record, 975,962. Fired on: abs_floor.
Detected13 October 2026, run 19

Evidence

IDMC Internal Displacement Updates, deduplicated to one figure per event Country page All alerts for Democratic Republic of the Congo JSON
key displacement_window:COD:conflict:2026-08