Whether it really is the World's most neglected crisis - Burkina Faso is certainly in the top five or so along with Nigeria, Somalia, Sudan and most countries in the Sahel. What they all have in common is Muslim insurgence.
In reality, the world's most neglected crisis is child sexual abuse.
Burkina Faso: ‘Group for the Support for Islam and Muslims’ and other jihadis have murdered thousands since 2014
“The situation has been described as the world’s most neglected crisis.”
Why is it neglected? Because it doesn’t fit the narrative of the political elites and the establishment media, in which Muslims are never perpetrators, but always victims.
‘They live with fear in their stomachs’:
increasing violence deepens crisis in Burkina Faso
Guardian, July 5, 2024 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
In a friend’s house in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso’s second-largest city, Maimuona* remembers the night her son was born. “There were gunshots and everyone was running,” she says. Jihadists attacked her village, sending everyone scattering into the bush and causing Maimouna to go into labour early. Seydou was born by the side of a sandy road. His nickname is “the lucky one”.
In the two years since, the family have not been able to return home, displaced by an insurgency that has been simmering since 2014, killing thousands and pushing more than 2 million – almost 10% of the population – from their homes. The situation has been described as the world’s most neglected crisis.
The attackers, believed to be from one of the most active terror groups in the country, Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (the Group for the Support for Islam and Muslims), burned houses and shops in Maimuona’s village in Nord region, and killed their goats and cows.
“Do you see the clothes we are wearing? We left with these on, we didn’t have time to grab anything,” says Maimuona, who is now living in the cramped home of her friend in the south-west Hauts-Bassins region, a relatively safe spot in the country, along with her husband, his other wife and their children. One child, Mamourou*, 13, was hit by a motorcycle during the escape. He now walks with a limp because they could not find him medical treatment for the injury….
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