Burkina Faso: Conflict and Coronavirus Spark a Hunger Crisis in Burkina Faso

Aug 19, 2020 | Sam Mednick, New Humanitarian
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The number of people in need of emergency food aid in Burkina Faso has tripled to more than 3.2 million – some 11,000 of whom are suffering from “catastrophe” levels of hunger – as the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic hits a country already engulfed by violence.