Burkina Faso Bound

A destabilized region: Awful week in the SahelF

Introduction by Arezki Daoud: For years, several analysts made dire predictions about where the Sahel was headed. Insurgencies, political turmoil, environmental disaster and humanitarian crises were among the series of problems forecast by experts. Today, all these...
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Sahel: Violence in the Sahel continues to escalate with no end in sightF

Deadly competition between two insurgent groups spreads terror in Lake Chad Here is a factfile on Boko Haram and its rival ISWAP following the killing of 24 Chadian troops in the troubled Lake Chad area: The insurgency initiated by Boko Haram in 2009 has left more...
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Sahel: Insurgency is destabilizing Burkina Faso, with mass population displacementF

Record numbers of people in Burkina Faso have become internally displaced or fled abroad as a result of jihadist violence, the UN's Refugee Agency said on Friday.  In the first half of 2021, 237,000 people fled to other parts of Burkina Faso, compared to 96,000...
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Burkina Faso: Quarter million people forced to abandon their homes so far this yearF

More than 237,000 people have been forced to abandon their homes in the past six months in Burkina Faso, a country facing deadly jihadist attacks, bringing the total number of displaced to more than 1.3 million, the government has announced.  A government spokesman...
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