TOUGAN – Islamic extremists chased Adama Drabo and his family from their land in western Burkina Faso, forcing them to abandon a year's worth of crops.
Now that food is rotting in storage in the village, too dangerous for him to retrieve, even as the family is forced to survive on meager government rations.
Drabo already has lost his 20-year-old son, who was killed by a roadside bomb. “Security is getting worse, and this year we won’t be able to cultivate and it will be a big problem,” he said.
His future looks bleak if he and his family cannot return to their land. Violence linked to jihadists has spread from Burkina Faso’s north to its western breadbasket in the Boucle du Mouhoun region, pushing thousands like Drabo to hunger and