BURKINA FASO-MALI: Hundreds of Touareg refugees flee escalating violence
wow.gm - Severalhundred Malians fleeing fighting between the army and Touareg rebels innorthern Mali have crossed the border into Burkina Faso since April,according to the Burkina Faso national commission for refugees(CONAREF). Over 300 refugees, most of them women and children,have been registered in Ouagadougou where they are sheltering in lockerrooms in the football stadium, while a further 600 are setting upmakeshift shelters in Djibo, 53 km from the Mali border and 205 kmnorth of the capital. ...» view full story