(ANSA) – KALAMBARI, 15 JUL – The conflict against Islamists and climate change in the African region of Western Sahel have pushed nearly five million people to flee their homes. This was stated by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR.
At the end of June, 4.8 million people were displaced in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger.
“The most affected country is Burkina Faso, where there are nearly two million internally displaced people,” said the High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, on a two-day visit to the camps in Chad, which house over a million. of people. Yesterday Grandi visited the Kalambari camp, about thirty kilometers south of the capital N’Djamena, where about 8,000 refugees from neighboring Cameroon live. “Two years ago, we registered 500,000 people in Mali and Burkina Faso, which already seemed like a huge number to me,” said Grandi.
In his speech, the High Commissioner for Refugees lamented the inadequacy of military action alone, arguing that the battle against jihadists includes not only the matter of security, but also the fight against poverty, underdevelopment and education. . Grandi also spoke of the climate emergency, which fuels conflicts, hoping for “more humanitarian aid for all Sahel countries”. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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