Burkina Faso has been named the world’s most neglected displacement crisis by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) for the second year.
Burkina Faso has been named the world’s most neglected displacement crisis by the Norwegian Refugee Council for the second year. In its annual report, released Monday, the NRC said the West African country saw a record-high 707,000 new displacements in 2023, driven by escalating violence and a worsening humanitarian crisis.
The country’s media regulatory body, the Superior Council for Communication, announced in the following days it was temporarily suspending broadcasting and access to websites of some western news organizations including the French TV5 Monde and Le Monde, the Guardian, as well as BBC Africa and VOA. The Democratic Republic of Congo remained one of the most neglected crises for the eighth consecutive year, with around 6.
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