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Burkina Faso: Sex for Food Aid Scandal Draws Government Denial, Lawsuit
VOA, 16 September 2021
Two men have been accused of defamation after they allegedly lied to a Burkina Faso journalist in a recent report, which found that those responsible for distributing aid in the… Read more »
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Burkina Faso: Sex-for-Food Aid Scandal Unfolding in Burkina Faso
VOA, 16 August 2021
A recent report found that community leaders in Burkina Faso are exploiting internally displaced women, demanding sex or money in return for food aid. One local official said these… Read more »
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West Africa: More Than 50 Dead in Attacks On Three Mali Border Villages
VOA, 12 August 2021
Militants in Mali have massacred more than 50 villagers near the borders with Burkina Faso and Niger. The area has seen increasing violence from armed Islamists, and activists are… Read more »
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Burkina Faso: Record Number of People Fleeing Armed Attacks in Burkina Faso
VOA, 23 July 2021
The U.N. refugee agency on Friday called for concerted action to help record-breaking numbers of people forced to flee increasingly violent armed attacks in Burkina Faso. Read more »
Sex-for-Food Scandal Unfolding in Burkina Faso - Report
A report by The New Humanitarian has found that eight internally displaced persons (IDPs) were coerced into sex with community leaders, who also demand money in exchange for food aid in the Centre North region. IDPs are also saying that they do not receive food aid from the state or non-profits.
One woman said she has been forced to take desperate measures after living in shelters for six months without much to eat - unless she had sex with people distributing food.
An official from a town with a large IDP population, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the size of the sex-for-food scandal is likely much bigger than has been reported so far.
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More than 7,000 people have fled a village in Burkina Faso that was attacked over the weekend, adding to tens of thousands already displaced by a militant insurgency in the ... Read more »
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The UN refugee agency says survivors of the massacre in a Burkina Faso village are in desperate need of humanitarian aid. Unidentified gunmen attacked the village of Solhan in the ... Read more »
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President Roch Kabore has fired Cherif Sy in the wake of widespread protests against insecurity on June 26, 2021. At the beginning of June, Burkina Faso saw its worst terror attack ... Read more »
World Food Programme (WFP) food distribution in Kaya, Burkina Faso (file photo).
