Reports

HIGHLIGHTS Burkina Faso is grappling with an unprecedented humanitarian emergency due to a sudden escalation of violence 1.2 million people need humanitarian assistance. More than 170,000 people have been uprooted from their homes. A three-fold increase since the…

Operational Context The key situations include: The Mali Situation began in 2012 with the outbreak of conflict in northern Mali. Today, almost 25,000 Malians have found refuge in Burkina Faso and were biometrically registered by UNHCR. Since the…

BURKINABE REFUGEES Population displacement has rapidly increased across the country since 2017, illustrating the worsening security situation. Today, over 170 000 Burkinabe citizens are internally displaced1 . The absence of security in many IDP hosting areas and…

By Marie-Evelyne Petrus Barry, directrice d’Amnesty International pour l’Afrique de l’Ouest et l'Afrique centrale et Malavika Vartak, Conseillère en droits économiques, sociaux et culturels The 1st June promises to be an historic day for advancing sexual and…

APERÇU DE LA SITUATION Le Burkina Faso fait face à une crise humanitaire sans précédent avec 1,2 millions de personnes qui ont besoin d’une assistance humanitaire. Le nombre de personnes déplacées à l'intérieur du pays a triplé…

In Numbers 556 mt of food assistance distributed US$ 172,082 cash-based transfers made US$ 28.4 m six months net funding requirements (May-October 2019), representing 44% of total 165,765 people assisted in April 2019 Operational Updates • Assistance to refugees: In April 2019,…

The Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) monitors trends in staple food prices in countries vulnerable to food insecurity. For each FEWS NET country and region, the Price Bulletin provides a set of charts showing…

Le Réseau de systèmes d’alerte précoce contre la famine (FEWS NET) surveille les tendances des prix des aliments de base dans les pays vulnérables à l'insécurité alimentaire. Pour chaque pays et chaque région couvert par FEWS NET,…

In recent weeks, a series of attacks on churches in Burkina Faso has received global media coverage (BBC, 2019). Jihadi militant groups recently accused of pitting ethnic communities against each other (HRW, 2019) are now also…

FOOD SECURITY SNAPSHOT Favourable moisture conditions allow timely planting of crops in the south Above-average harvest gathered in 2018 Strong economic growth rate and low inflation rate Prices of coarse grains generally stable, but down from year earlier Food assistance to…