There were about 40 of us, and it took us 20 hours to reach Ouahigouya.” –Aguiratou, internally displaced woman from northern Burkina Faso The central Sahel region, encompassing Burkina Faso, Mali and ...

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Good morning, Ayesha. RASCOE: So tell us about this region and the rising levels of insecurity there. AKINWOTU: Yes. The Sahel is this semi-arid region just north of where I am in Lagos - in ...

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The Sahel region of Africa is the "epicentre of global terrorism" and now, for the first time, accounts for "over half of all terrorism-related deaths", according to the Global Terrorism Index (GTI).