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Text by Kathryn Mahoney<\/strong>
Photos by Sylvain Cherkaoui<\/strong><\/h3>\n

17 April 2020<\/p>\n

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[\/et_pb_fullwidth_image][et_pb_fullwidth_code module_class=”caption” _builder_version=”3.17.6″]Zeinabou, 42, photographed in her relatives\u2019 courtyard in Burkina Faso.\u00a0Three days earlier, her husband was killed before her eyes.<\/pee>[\/et_pb_fullwidth_code][et_pb_fullwidth_header title=”6 Faces of the Sahel Crisis” button_one_text=”Learn more” button_one_url=”#anchor-2″ background_overlay_color=”rgba(255,255,255,0.4)” content_max_width=”500px” admin_label=”Fullwidth Header %91Mobile only%93″ _builder_version=”3.17.6″ title_font=”|700|||||||” title_text_color=”#0072bc” title_font_size=”99″ title_line_height=”0.9″ subhead_font=”|700|||||||” subhead_text_color=”#424242″ subhead_font_size=”38px” subhead_line_height=”1.1em” background_color=”rgba(255, 255, 255, 0)” custom_button_one=”on” button_one_text_color=”#0072bc” button_one_bg_color=”rgba(255,255,255,0.36)” button_one_border_color=”#0072bc” background_layout=”light” title_font_size_tablet=”80″ title_font_size_phone=”40″ title_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” subhead_font_size_tablet=”” subhead_font_size_phone=”18px” subhead_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” text_shadow_style=”preset3″ text_shadow_color=”rgba(255,255,255,0.4)” button_one_text_size__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_text_size__hover=”null” button_two_text_size__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_text_size__hover=”null” button_one_text_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_text_color__hover=”null” button_two_text_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_text_color__hover=”null” button_one_border_width__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_border_width__hover=”null” button_two_border_width__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_border_width__hover=”null” button_one_border_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_border_color__hover=”null” button_two_border_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_border_color__hover=”null” button_one_border_radius__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_border_radius__hover=”null” button_two_border_radius__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_border_radius__hover=”null” button_one_letter_spacing__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_letter_spacing__hover=”null” button_two_letter_spacing__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_letter_spacing__hover=”null” button_one_bg_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_bg_color__hover=”null” button_two_bg_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_bg_color__hover=”null”]<\/p>\n

Text by Kathryn Mahoney<\/strong>
Photos by Sylvain Cherkaoui<\/strong><\/p>\n

17 April 2020<\/p>\n

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Zeinabou, 42, photographed in her relatives\u2019 courtyard in Burkina Faso.\u00a0Three days earlier, her husband was killed before her eyes.<\/h6>\n

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In Burkina Faso, almost nowhere is safe.<\/h2>\n

Armed groups, extremists and criminal gangs wage terror on a daily basis, murdering those who refuse to fight alongside them. The killers shoot families to death. They rape and torture women. They destroy anything that symbolizes the state: schools, police stations, even hospitals.<\/p>\n

Those who survive an attack know they might only be lucky once, so they run. In the past 15 months, 800,000 Burkinab\u00e8 have fled their homes to seek safety. Some cross into Mali or Niger, where conditions can be just as perilous. Others look for shelter within Burkina Faso. But as the violence spreads, many are fleeing for the second and third time.<\/p>\n

Daily life in Burkina Faso, a landlocked nation of 19 million, is precarious. Meet six people \u2013 photographed and interviewed in early February 2020 \u2013 whose lives have been turned upside down.<\/p>\n

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\nThe violence in the Sahel \u2013 an arid belt that stretches for thousands of miles along the southern edge of the Sahara \u2013 erupted after the 2011 revolution in Libya and a 2012 uprising in Mali. Armed men swept across borders, exploiting ethnic tensions, poverty and weak governance to terrorize local populations. When the bloodshed reached Burkina Faso, roughly four years ago, it ended the peace the country had long known.<\/p>\n

For years, people escaping conflict in neighbouring Mali fled to Burkina Faso, and some 25,000 refugees lived in camps across the country. Many of these settlements have come under attack more than once, and the threat of violence makes it nearly impossible for aid workers from UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and other organizations to reach some of the refugees. It has also become too dangerous to keep markets and schools open. Jobs are disappearing.<\/p>\n

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\nThe refugees face an impossible choice: stay and risk being attacked, or return home to a country still in turmoil. Some are going back to Mali, even to areas so dangerous that humanitarians and national defense forces cannot enter.<\/p>\n

Now Burkinab\u00e8 are taking in their fellow citizens. But communities are at a breaking point. Already struggling with poverty, failing schools and a fragile health system, they now face an additional threat: the new coronavirus.<\/p>\n

To slow the pandemic, borders have been sealed and schools closed, a curfew has been imposed from 19:00 to 05:00, movement is restricted to and from towns with confirmed cases of COVID-19, and gatherings of more than 50 people are banned.<\/p>\n

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Internal Displacement in the Sahel<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Source: Government
25 March 2020
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Source: Government
29 February 2020
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Source: Government
31 March 2020<\/span>
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The Survivor<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

\u201cI\u2019m so traumatized that I can\u2019t even remember what happened. I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m saying.<\/b>\u201d<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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\u2014Hawa, 57<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n

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Hawa was at home in Boukouma when her nephew alerted the family that armed men were approaching. Within seconds, two dozen men on motorcycles roared up and opened fire as she and other women hid inside. \u201cThey killed my husband and his brother when they had their hands in the air,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hawa buried the dead the next day, then fled with 32 members of her family. Now she has found relative safety at her son\u2019s home in Kaya, 150 kilometres to the south. But she has nightmares, waking up each night screaming, phantom gunshots ringing in her ears. \u201cI am a widow of this conflict,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cNothing prepared me for what I saw in Burkina Faso\u2026 I was particularly struck by the plight of so many women who had suffered violence, whose husbands had been taken away from them or killed, whose children had been separated from them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, on France24<\/p>\n

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The Welcomer<\/b><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

\u201cAs a chief it is my duty to take in those who come to me for help.<\/b>\u201d<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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\u2014Dianbend\u00e9, 67<\/b><\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n

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Community leader Dianbend\u00e9 now hosts more than 2,500 displaced Burkinab\u00e8 on and around his property, a number that mounts each day. He offers food, shelter and water \u2013 often at his own expense. <\/span>With one bad leg, he moves with difficulty and has trouble providing even for his family but welcomes every arrival.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>At first we thought they were only killing men. But then we realized that they would kill women and children too,” Dianbend<\/span>\u00e9<\/span> said. “I’m disabled. I have nothing to give. But it is my obligation to try to make this situation even a little better.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nDisplacement in Burkina Faso has risen tenfold in the past year, surpassing 800,000. More than 90 per cent of the displaced live with host families, and UNHCR estimates there are still more than 35,000 families in need of shelter in the country.<\/p>\n

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The Volunteer<\/b><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

\u201cThe refugees tell me what I do is noble, but honestly I\u2019m scared. I take these risks because I love my job. I\u2019m committed to defending our human rights<\/b>.\u201d<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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\u2014Ilyas, 30<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n

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Ilyas works for UNHCR under the UN Volunteer Programme in Djibo town and Mentao refugee camp in the north of Burkina Faso. Conditions are so risky that he is one of only two UNHCR staff there. He helps ensure that refugees have access to food, water and shelter. As a Malian refugee, he feels honoured to work for UNHCR, but fears it could make him a target.<\/p>\n

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Armed groups in Burkina Faso have killed government officials, health-care workers, teachers and other symbols of the state. At times they have targeted humanitarian organizations too, stealing vehicles and kidnapping staff.<\/p>\n

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The Mother<\/b><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

\u201cMy daughter panicked when she heard the bullets and now she panics all the time. All I wish for is one day when my daughter doesn\u2019t have a panic attack<\/b><\/strong>.\u201d<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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\u2014Leila, 30<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n

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Leila fled violence in Mali in 2012 and lived in Goudoubo refugee camp until 2019, when armed men on motorcycles attacked the camp three times.<\/span><\/p>\n

Leila\u2019s ten-year-old daughter, Rahmata, witnessed one of the attacks and has never been the same. Leila says she herself has been \u201cprofoundly\u201d affected by the number of people showing signs of psychological distress amid rising insecurity.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt really hurts. It\u2019s hard to be a mother and see this,\u201d she said. \u201cI just keep praying for peace.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nUntil the latest upsurge in violence, nearly 9,000 refugees were living in Goudoubo, but about half have since returned to Mali while the rest moved to other places in Burkina Faso. The camp is now empty.<\/p>\n

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The Humanitarian<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

\u201cThis hurts me. My country is under attack and we can\u2019t give people the protection they deserve.<\/b>\u201d<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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\u2014Eric<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n

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Born and raised in Burkina Faso, Eric works as a UNHCR associate registration officer in the country\u2019s north-east, not far from the borders with Niger and Mali. He had worked in Goudoubo camp since 2012, when Malian refugees began seeking safety in his country. He feels a kinship with the refugees he serves.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI have been a brother to the refugees, and them to me,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now that the conflict has spilled into his country, Eric says the refugees are offering him support. They empathize with his sadness. Now that the areas where refugees are living is more dangerous, Eric cannot see them as often, if at all. He feels \u201cweak and worried.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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A\u00a0UNHCR study<\/a> found that 38 per cent of its staff worldwide working directly with refugees or displaced people were at risk of secondary traumatic stress, a disorder that can bring on physical, mental and emotional exhaustion.<\/p>\n

Prevalent among people who work under emotional stress for long periods, the disorder can make it impossible to carry out normal daily functions and cause negative feelings about oneself or the world.<\/p>\n

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The Local<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

\u201cThis has turned our life upside down, but we cannot turn them away. What would we do, tell them to leave to go get killed?\u201d<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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\u2014Yobi<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n

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Yobi Sawadogo is an advisor to the mayor of Kaya, a town that counted 66,000 residents in its last census (in 2012) and now hosts more than 300,000 displaced Burkinab\u00e8. The local government welcomes people in need, but the influx of newcomers has drastically changed daily life. The lines to fetch water are growing longer, and health centres are becoming overcrowded. Markets are still well stocked, but only because those who fled here have no money to buy food.<\/span><\/p>\n

In spite of the challenges, Yobi said his town will continue to accept those who seek safety, partly out of solidarity and partly out of fear. \u201cWe say that what happened to them could happen to us,\u201d he said, \u201cWe can\u2019t turn people away.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nUntil 2016, Burkina Faso was a model for relatively peaceful co-existence among ethnically diverse communities, and a safe haven for refugees. The violence there is unprecedented, and the government is grappling to manage the scale of humanitarian needs. But for now, many are still sleeping outdoors, exposed to the elements and other dangers, and in acute need of better access to water and sanitation facilities.<\/p>\n

UNHCR and other UN agencies have called for US$255 million globally to support government efforts to combat COVID-19 in areas hosting refugees and IDPs.<\/p>\n

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To support our work in the Sahel and other regions grappling with displacement and coronavirus:<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

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Learn more about displacement in Burkina Faso:<\/span><\/h4>\n

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