Burkina Faso Issues - 2022

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

Disputes - international

adding to illicit cross-border activities, Burkina Faso has issues concerning unresolved boundary alignments with its neighbors; demarcation is currently underway with Mali; the dispute with Niger was referred to the ICJ in 2010, and a dispute over several villages with Benin persists; Benin retains a border dispute with Burkina Faso around the town of Koualau/Kourou

Refugees and internally displaced persons

refugees (country of origin): 33,611 (Mali) (2022)

IDPs:

1,761,915 (2022)

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