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@RefugeesMedia - 11/02/2022
UNHCR forecasts an accelerating trend of displacements in the coming weeks and months Some 440,000 people have been newly displaced since February 2021, according to UNHCR data, adding to an existing 370,000 who had fled their homes previously
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@RefugeesMedia - 11/02/2022
UNHCR stepping up emergency assistance to 800,000 IDPs in Myanmar -- twice as many as in February 2021. Security is deteriorating rapidly across the country as fighting and armed conflict intensifies with no sign of abating https://t.co/FlWbAMUcUu via @refugees
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@RefugeesMedia - 04/02/2022
Pressures keep building up in Africa's Sahel where extremist violence has forced 2.5 million people to flee for their lives A great many of them are internally displaced Burkinabe, but refugee numbers are growing https://t.co/dfdU5pwdCW via @refugees
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@RefugeesMedia - 04/02/2022
Burkinabe refugees are being hosted by Ivorian villagers in crowded conditions. UNHCR staff said many Ivorian families are hosting up to 30 Burkinabe refugees in small houses. Overcrowding is deteriorating sanitary conditions
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@RefugeesMedia - 04/02/2022
The plight of Burkinabe refugees is becoming increasingly precarious as more people arrive in Côte d’Ivoire without personal belongings or food. They told UNHCR staff that civilians had been killed and their homes burnt down by extremists
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@RefugeesMedia - 04/02/2022
In 2021, some 19,200 Burkinabe fled to neighbouring Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, Niger and Benin – a 50 per cent increase on the previous year. More than 34,000 Burkinabe are now in exile across the region.
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@RefugeesMedia - 04/02/2022
The Sahel is also on the front lines of the climate crisis, with temperatures increasing at 1.5 times the global average. This is exacerbating underlying vulnerabilities of states
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@RefugeesMedia - 04/02/2022
In urban centers, displaced populations are exposed to new protection risks. Threats to women and youth are particularly severe, including sexual and labour exploitation, gender-based violence, forced recruitment and trafficking
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@RefugeesMedia - 04/02/2022
The Sahel also faces an unprecedented rural exodus and movement to urban areas by the forcibly displaced due to shrinking areas under governmental control, reduced access to land and agricultural production, and multiple environmental challenges.
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@RefugeesMedia - 04/02/2022
Large parts of the Sahel are inaccessible to humanitarian agencies supporting 2.5m dispalced people from Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger. This is leading more Sahelians to move southwards toward coastal countries or to North Africa, where many end up in a dangerous limbo
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