On May 31, 2019 The New Humanitarian (formerly IRIN News) published an article that might be of interest for our readers: “The Sahel in flames.”

The article begins with these findings:

The civilian toll in numbers

• Civilian fatalities rose 7,000 percent in Burkina Faso, 500 percent in Niger, and 300 percent in Mali compared to the previous year
• 440,000 people displaced by conflict, a five-fold increase over the previous year
• 1.8 million people face food insecurity
• 5.1 million people require humanitarian assistance
• 157 men, women, and children killed in March in one attack in Mali

To read more, click on the link below:

https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/in-depth/sahel-flames-Burkina-Faso-Mali-Niger-militancy-conflict?utm_source=The+New+Humanitarian&utm_campaign=cf6326c87f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_03_21_12_49_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d842d98289-cf6326c87f-75481261