Friday, January 22, 2021

The Sahel Crisis

 More than two million people have been forced to flee their homes within their own countries’ borders owing to the violence engulfing Africa’s Sahel region, the United Nations refugee agency has said. The figure of two million internally displaced people had more than quadrupled since the start of 2019. On top of the internally displaced, more than 850,000 people have fled from Mali and taken shelter in other countries.

The humanitarian response is “dangerously overstretched” in an area covering parts of Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali and Niger, the UNHCR said on Friday.

More than two million people have been forced to flee their homes within their own countries’ borders owing to the violence engulfing Africa’s Sahel region, the United Nations refugee agency has said.

The humanitarian response is “dangerously overstretched” in an area covering parts of Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali and Niger, the UNHCR said on Friday.

More than half of the displaced in the region are in impoverished Burkina Faso, which has been under attack since 2015 when fighters swept in from neighbouring Mali. The problems in Burkina Faso have intensified in recent weeks, said Cheshirkov.

UN says two million internally displaced by Sahel violence | United Nations News | Al Jazeera

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