Reference :
V-F-CR-F-03522-N
Date :
27/10/2022
Title :
La présidente du CICR Mirjana Spoljaric Egger en visite au Mali où le changement climatique et les conflits frappent durement la population du Sahel = ICRC President Mijana Spoljaric Egger visits Mali as climate change and conflict force people in the Sahel into desperate state
Duration :
00:08:41
Editor :
unknown
Confidentiality level :
public
Publication restrictions :
publication without restrictions
Production company :
ICRC
ICRC producer :
NG'ANG'A KAMAU, Mark
Description :
Mali faces overwhelming humanitarian challenges today. The population here simultaneously confronts the effects of conflict, climate change and a major food crisis. Taken together, these elements form a deadly loop.
Caught in the middle are millions of people.
More than 7.5 million people, a third of the population, need some form of assistance to survive. The situation is most critical to the 400,000 displaced people across the country, who have been forced from their homes because of violence. In Gao, where thousands have sought refuge and are now living in makeshift tents with no access to basic services, nearly everyone has a story of unimaginable suffering.
“I have seen people, communities that were displaced from their villages. Their villages were burned down. I’ve sat with women who came with their children sometimes even having to bury their children who lost their lives as they were fleeing their villages.”
On her first visit as president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Mirjana Spoljaric travelled to Gao, where she spoke with men, women and children whose lives were ravaged by violence from all over the Sahel region.
“We all ran to the forest. Some women gave birth and had to abandon their children”
“In our flight, children were crying for food and water. People lost their lives to thirst.
Bintou Walet Fakana, a mother to ten children, had to flee her village after it was attacked. As the family walked to safety, her husband died of thirst. With her children and others from her village she was displaced multiple times as host communities already under pressure asked them to leave. In the process she also lost a son.
The conflict here is unfolding even as the worst food crisis to hit the country in over a decade ravages families. Climate shocks, erratic rain patterns and inflation are making the situation worse. 4.5 million people are facing malnutrition and more people are being pushed into poverty every day.
“People died here and we did not even have the means to buy a shroud with which to bury them”
“On top of violence, we were confronting the consequences of drought. Animals no longer had anything to eat, and neither did we. So we left Burkina Faso before things got worse”
“We came here in catastrophe. No one thought of taking their belongings, we are here with nothing”
“Our biggest need right now is clean water and food. Once we have this, we will then need healthcare and shelter”
Arab Ag Yaya is responsible for his commune at a displacement site in Kadji. His story is one of constant displacement since the 1990s. After finding peace as refugees in Burkina Faso for years, they were forced to return to Mali, where the situation is worsening. Violence seems to follow them everywhere.
French title :
La présidente du CICR Mirjana Spoljaric Egger en visite au Mali où le changement climatique et les conflits frappent durement la population du Sahel
English title :
ICRC President Mijana Spoljaric Egger visits Mali as climate change and conflict force people in the Sahel into desperate state
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