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EXCLUSIVE: Sex-for-food aid claimed by women in Burkina Faso

EXCLUSIVE: Sex-for-food aid claimed by women in Burkina Faso

SAM MEDNICK THE women were able to escape deadly attacks by Islamist militants that have triggered one of the world’s fastest-growing displacement crises. But their ordeal, they said, didn’t end there: In places of supposed refuge, local men demanded sex from them in exchange for humanitarian assistance. Eight displaced women living in Burkina Faso’s northern town of Kaya told The New Humanitarian they were approached for sex by local men – some of the community leaders – who said they were registering people in need of food aid. Most incidents took place over the past 15 months, the women said…
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