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Insecurity Fuels Extreme Hunger in Burkina Faso

The World Food Program (WFP) reports that "Burkina Faso is a landlocked, low-income country located in West Africa, with a population of about 20.4 million. 40.1% of the people live on less than $1.90 a

The World Food Program (WFP) reports that “Burkina Faso is a landlocked, low-income country located in West Africa, with a population of about 20.4 million. 40.1% of the people live on less than $1.90 a day.

Since 2018, the security situation in the country has deteriorated due to the growing active presence of non-state armed groups leading to increased forced displacement, which in turn has exacerbated food and nutritional insecurity across the country.

In 2019, Burkina Faso was one of the fastest-growing displacement crises in the world: A total of 3.3 million people are estimated to be facing acute food insecurity, with the COVID-19 pandemic contributing to a sharp spike in numbers.


Two provinces in the Sahel region – Oudalan and Soum – have been driven into the Emergency phase of food insecurity. Some 3 percent of people in these northern areas are said to be experiencing catastrophic levels of acute food insecurity.”

As non-state armed groups continue to disrupt entire communities across the sub region exacerbating poverty and hunger for countless millions of people, an international response will be required to checkmate the marauders.

To be sustainable, this response must include training and empowering communities to protect themselves, stonewalling the criminals from gaining footholds in the territories and allowing locals to grow food for themselves like their forebears have done for hundreds of years.

Food aid, as good as it is, is not a sustainable response to the hunger problem in the country.

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