Around four million people displaced across Africa’s Sahel, UN warns | United Nations News

Women and children represent 80 percent of those forcibly displaced in countries including Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, UNHCR says.

Around four million people are now displaced across Africa’s Sahel region, the United Nations has said, with violence and insecurity driving a growing number of people from their homes.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) called for greater international…