Mauritania

Regional instability and conflict in Mali continue to drive displacement into Mauritania. As of March 2019, over 58,000 Malian refugees, some 60% of them children, are living in and around Mbera camp in the southeast of Mauritania. ? The camp continues to be highly dependent on the government and external humanitarian assistance. Being a long-time established refugee camp, humanitarian actors’ strategies for the refugee population are focused on both ensuring access to basic services as well as supporting empowering activities, durable solutions and peaceful coexistence with the local community. Large scale returns of Malian refugees are not expected due to the persistence of violence in central and northern Mali. ?

INFORM measures Mauritania's risk of a humanitarian crisis for 2019 as hig at 6.2/10. ?