Lake Chad Basin - Humanitarian Snapshot (As of 10 June 2025)

The humanitarian landscape in the Lake Chad Basin continues to be fraught with challenges, affecting millions across the region. As of May 2025, internal displacement had decreased by 5 per cent since January, with more than 2.9 million people still displaced. Nigeria remains the most affected with 2.1 million displaced due to ongoing insecurity in the north-east, followed by Cameroon, where over 476,000 people have fled persistent insecurity in the Far North region. Meanwhile, the number of refugees has increased by 2 per cent since January 2025, reaching 272,400.

As of 10 June, humanitarian organizations had received US$347 million — just 10 per cent of the total required to implement their plans through 2025. According to the March–May 2025 Cadre Harmonisé analysis, around 4.9 million people across the region are facing phase 3 and 4 of food insecurity, including over 3.7 million in Nigeria alone. Of the 1,827 non-functional schools in the Lake Chad Basin, Chad had been the most affected, accounting for 80 per cent of the total and leaving thousands of children out of school. Funding to the humanitarian response plans is essential to provide immediate relief and sustain vital services such as water, sanitation, food security, malnutrition treatment, and emergency education programmes.