Extreme Jeopardy

Author:
UNICEF
Publisher:
United Nations Children's Fund
Publication Date:
17 March 2023
Tags:
Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger

Ten million children in the central Sahel need humanitarian assistance amid spiralling conflict and punishing climate.

Children in the central Sahel are increasingly caught up in armed conflict, and the intensification in military clashes is putting their lives and futures in extreme jeopardy. As tactics sink to brutal new lows, children are being directly targeted by non-state armed groups who operate across vast swathes of Mali and Burkina Faso, and increasingly in Niger.

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