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‘Nobody sees me’: Photographing displacement in Burkina Faso’s capital

‘Nobody sees me’: Photographing displacement in Burkina Faso’s capital

More than 30,000 Burkinabé have made their way down to the capital city, Ouagadougou, over the past few years, escaping a jihadist conflict that has enveloped large parts of the country and displaced more than two million people overall. Yet despite the city’s safety and employment opportunities, the displaced people have been struggling with high rents and a lack of assistance and recognition from humanitarian organisations and different governments. Late last year, Burkinabé photographer Warren Saré, working alongside Italian reporter Giulia Tringali, spent time documenting the lives of the city’s displaced people, who live in informal settlements, with host families,…
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Gaza’s main hospital becomes teeming camp for displaced people

Gaza’s main hospital becomes teeming camp for displaced people

CRAMMED under makeshift canvas shelters in the car park, sleeping in corridors or on landings, passing the hours of the day in stairwells, hanging laundry on the roof - thousands of displaced Gazans are filling every space at Al Shifa Hospital. The main hospital in Gaza City has turned into a giant refuge for people whose homes have been bombarded, or who fear that they will be, in Israel's military assault on the Gaza Strip, which is entering its second month. "We ran from our house because of the heavy air strikes," said Um Haitham Hejela, a woman sheltering with…
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‘Eritrea troops to leave Tigray soon’

‘Eritrea troops to leave Tigray soon’

MICHELLE NICHOLS  ERITREAN troops in Ethiopia's Tigray region are expected to "definitely leave soon," Ethiopia's U.N. envoy said after a top U.N. official told the Security Council that Eritrea's soldiers were using starvation as a weapon of war. Outgoing U.N. aid chief Mark Lowcock told the 15-member council in a private briefing that "no one should be surprised to see a rerun" of a devastating 1984 famine if violence in Tigray does not stop and Eritrean troops do not withdraw. "Rape is being used systematically to terrorize and brutalize women and girls. Eritrean soldiers are using starvation as a weapon…
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Gunmen kill 25 displaced people in Burkina Faso

Gunmen kill 25 displaced people in Burkina Faso

ARMED assailants have killed 25 displaced people in northern Burkina Faso as their convoy tried to make its way home, according to the United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR. The gunmen, who carried out the attack near the town of Pissila in the Center-North region on the night of October 4, separated the men from the group and shot them. The women and children were let go, UNHCR said in a statement based on survivors' testimony. "The attack on the (internally displaced people) occurred as they were returning to their homes from Pissila, hoping for an improved security situation there," the…
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Nearly 80% displaced people have lost job, income due to virus – survey

Nearly 80% displaced people have lost job, income due to virus – survey

SOME 77% of people displaced by conflicts have lost a job or revenue since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, a survey by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has revealed. A record 79.5 million people worldwide, or 1% of humanity, were displaced at the end of 2019 after fleeing wars or persecution, according to the United Nations. The NRC, a non-governmental organisation, polled 1,431 refugees and internally displaced people across 14 countries including Afghanistan, Colombia, Iraq, Kenya Libya, Mali, Uganda and Venezuela. Some 70% of those surveyed said they had to cut the number of meals for their households and…
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