UN refugee agency urges action to address deepening displacement crisis in Africa's Sahel region Related news

George Mihalcea

GENEVA The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, on Friday called for urgent international support to tackle the worsening displacement crisis in Africa's Sahel region, where about 4 million people are now uprooted across Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, and neighboring countries. The figure is around two-thirds more than five years ago, according to the agency. "The region cannot face these challenges alone," Abdouraouf Gnon-Konde, UNHCR's regional director for West and Central Africa, told reporters in Geneva,