Day: June 8, 2021

Survivors of Burkina Faso Massacre in Urgent Need of Aid

GENEVA – The U.N. refugee agency says survivors of the Saturday massacre in a Burkina Faso village are in desperate need of humanitarian aid. Unidentified gunmen attacked the village of Solhan in Burkina Faso’s northeast Sahel region on June 5. They r…

Children Shot, Bombed and Knifed in Tigray War

MEKELLE, EDAGA HAMUS, ETHIOPIA – Fifteen-year-old Beriha lost one eye in the war and was permanently blinded in the other. And like many of the children hospitalized in Mekelle, the capital of Ethiopia’s Tigray region, she traveled for weeks to get her…