Cumulative 2,968,000 displaced Persons in 2020, IDMC, Global Internal Displacement Database, 2020 Internal Displacement, “Somalia,” https://www.internal-displacement.org/database/displacement-data, plus 347,000 displaced in 2021. (See note below.)

292,000 displaced in 2020: IDMC, “Somalia,” https://www.internal-displacement.org/countries/somalia.

354,250 in 2021:

Over 250,000 persons have been evicted/displaced in Banadir, Berdale and Baadweyn, including close to 200,000 in Mogadishu (Banadir region), OCHA, “Somalia: Displacement Update for Banadir, Berdale, and Baadweyn,” as of 6 May 2021, https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/Displacement%20Update_final.pdf; “Concerns over mass displacements in Mogadishu,” statement by the Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia, 28 April 2021, https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/HC%20statement_surge%20in%20displacement%20Mogadishu%2028%20April%202021%20Final.pdf. More than 523,000 people have been forced to flee their homes in Somalia since January 2021; i.e., 347,000 (66 per cent) due to conflict/insecurity, including close to 207,000 people in Mogadishu who were temporarily displaced by elections-related violence in April. The number of people who have been forcibly displaced from Laas Caanood and surrounding areas has risen to more than 7,250. OCHA, “Somalia: Flash update on forced displacement from Laas Caanood #3, As of 14 October 2021,” 15 October 2021, https://reliefweb.int/report/somalia/somalia-flash-update-forced-displacement-laas-caanood-3-14-october-2021.

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