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Displacement in Burkina Faso a ‘humanitarian emergency’: UNHCR chief

UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi, visiting Burkina Faso, says he is “shocked” by tales of extreme violence that have driven hundreds of thousands from their homes in the west African state, sparking a “humanitarian emergency” of extreme proportions. News coverage of Grandi’s visit to Kaya, the main town of the Centre-North region where hundreds of thousands of displaced persons have fled.

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