Extreme violence in Mali has driven thousands of residents across their borders to neighbouring countries Burkina Faso and Niger. The children's rights organization Plan International meets Malian refugees in a camp in Burkina Faso who tell their stories and their experiences of the violence in their country.
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They use the tress for fuel. Their pastoral animals destroy the grasses and desertify. There is no work so young men look for, and find guns to protect the ever-diminishing pastoral land.
What is the plan? Send them back to the desert? These people are not refugees. They are permanent MIGRANTS leaving a desert they have helped create.
They need a new home where they can do less damage.