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.
| Rule | Displacement in a month against the country's own record |
| Period | 2026-08-01 to 2026-08-31 |
| Displacement in the month | 273,242 |
| Events in the month | 8 |
| Months of history compared | 19 |
| 90th percentile of that history | 975,962 |
| Judged against | an absolute floor of 50,000; the 90th percentile of the country's own record, 975,962. Fired on: abs_floor. |
| Detected | 13 October 2026, run 19 |