PRISM Alerts · South Sudan · Alert 50
South Sudan Conflict displacement worsening 13 October 2026

South Sudan: 273,209 conflict-driven internal displacements between 2026-07-01 and 2026-07-31 (IDMC IDU)

Conflict-driven internal displacements per month (people)

According to IDMC's Internal Displacement Updates, between 1 and 31 July 2026 South Sudan recorded 273,209 conflict-driven internal displacements across 5 events, a figure above both the 50,000 threshold and the 90th percentile of the country's own monthly record over the previous 18 months (119,178). The largest share is attributed to communal violence in Warrap, reported by OCHA, which also reported 10,000 displacements in Kajo-keji, Central Equatoria, on 14 July 2026. The remaining 3 events, reported by IOM DTM South Sudan and linked to communal violence in Western Bahr el Ghazal and countrywide armed conflict, account for between 855 and 984 displacements each.

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How this fired

RuleDisplacement in a month against the country's own record
Period2026-07-01 to 2026-07-31
Displacement in the month273,209
Events in the month5
Months of history compared18
90th percentile of that history119,178
Judged againstan absolute floor of 50,000; the 90th percentile of the country's own record, 119,178. Fired on: abs_floor, history_percentile.
Detected13 October 2026, run 34

Evidence

IDMC Internal Displacement Updates, deduplicated to one figure per event Country page All alerts for South Sudan JSON
key displacement_window:SSD:conflict:2026-07