A series of report on the occasion on World Refugee Day,.First report is about Adieu Achul who faced a bleak future. Her family was slaughtered when she was a youngster in what is now South Sudan, and she grew up in the Kenyan refugee camp of Dadaab. Achul has worked hard to establish himself as an entrepreneur and activist, and he also collects money for camp inmates. From Nairobi, Juma Majanga tells her experience.
According to the United Nations, the number of people forcibly displaced from their homes around the world will reach 82.4 million by the end of 2020, the greatest number ever. In advance of World Refugee Day on Sunday, June 20, VOA’s Laurel Bowman has more on the UN’s annual report.
Burkina Faso’s 1.2 million internally displaced persons have been called the world’s fastest-growing humanitarian disaster by the United Nations, but the government refuses to recognise thousands of IDPs who are left without assistance. Over a million IDPs residing in official camps have been denied access to the media. In this report from Ouagadougou, reporter Henry Wilkins chronicles a day in the life of a “invisible” IDP.
After spent much of their youth fleeing Islamist violence and dealing with trauma, Malian refugees Amiri Ag Abdoulaye and Mohammed Ould Najim met in a Burkina Faso refugee camp. The young guys enrolled in a programme developed by an internationally renowned Burkinabè dancer that teaches marginalised youngsters how to use dance as a vehicle for healing and reconciliation. This is a report from Ouagadougou by Clair MacDougall.
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