PRISM Alerts · Cameroon · Alert 8
Cameroon Conflict displacement worsening 13 October 2026

Cameroon: 12,986 conflict-driven internal displacements between 2026-09-01 and 2026-09-30 (IDMC IDU)

Conflict-driven internal displacements per month (people)

According to IDMC's Internal Displacement Updates, 12,986 conflict-driven internal displacements were recorded in Cameroon between 1 September and 30 September 2026, all linked to 1 event, the non-international armed conflict involving Boko Haram in the Far North region. The alert was triggered because this monthly figure exceeded the 90th percentile of Cameroon's own monthly record across 19 months of history, which stands at 9,162. The largest single record within the event, 8,680 displacements dated 27 September, was reported by the IOM Displacement Tracking Matrix, with further records from IOM DTM and OCHA dated 21 and 27 September.

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How this fired

RuleDisplacement in a month against the country's own record
Period2026-09-01 to 2026-09-30
Displacement in the month12,986
Events in the month1
Months of history compared19
90th percentile of that history9,162
Judged againstan absolute floor of 50,000; the 90th percentile of the country's own record, 9,162. Fired on: history_percentile.
Detected13 October 2026, run 19

Evidence

IDMC Internal Displacement Updates, deduplicated to one figure per event Country page All alerts for Cameroon JSON
key displacement_window:CMR:conflict:2026-09