Informes

As prepared for delivery Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, Thank you for giving me the opportunity to talk about the Sahel with you. My main point, to cut to the chase, is that, at the moment, most public policy efforts,…

FAITS SAILLANTS Le Burkina Faso est confronté à une crise humanitaire sans précédent liée à une augmentation soudaine de violences. 1,2 million de personnes auront besoin d'assistance humanitaire. Plus de 136 000 personnes ont été forcées de quitter…

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 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…

I. APERÇU DE LA SITUATION SECURITAIRE ET DE PROTECTION La région du sahel à l’image d’autres régions du Burkina est confrontée ce mois d’avril à une recrudescence des actes de violences avec son corollaire des violations des…

Key Messages Following the accelerated deterioration of the security situation, there are now 161,217 internally displaced persons (OCHA/CONASUR, 6 May 2019) in Burkina Faso, twice as many as at the beginning of the year. These displacements occurred…