Mali: UNHCR calls for urgent investment as displacement crisis deepens across Central Sahel

Countries: Mali, Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Togo Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees This is a summary of what was said by Abdouraouf Gnon-Konde, UNHCR's Director of the Regional Bureau for West and Central Africa – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at the press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. GENEVA – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is increasingly concerned about the deepening displacement crisis in the Central Sahel, with nearly 4 million people