Conflict and Climate: Double threat driving Great Lakes displacement
Rwanda offers a contrasting case: conflict-induced displacement has been low for years, with internal displacement today almost entirely climate-driven and concentrated in the Western and Northern provinces along Lake Kivu.
Conflict remains the main driver of regional internal displacement, with the DRC alone registering over a million new IDPs in Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC)/M23-held territories during 2025’s first quarter.
The UN Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement have been translated into two binding instruments – namely the African Union’s (AU) Kampala Convention and International Conference on the Great Lakes Region’s (ICGLR) Protocol on the Protection and Assistance to IDPs.
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