Countries & Territories/Burkina Faso

Daily Press Briefing by the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General

24 Jul

Exceptional and prolonged heat in Siberia has fuelled devastating Arctic fires, the World Meteorological Organization said today, noting that temperatures in Siberia again topped 30°C this week. The heat will influence weather and climate in lower latitudes, where hundreds of millions of people live, it warned.

Daily Press Briefing by the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General

8 Jul

In June, 921,000 people were forced to leave Burkina Faso, making it the site of one of the world’s fastest-growing displacement crises. Increased insecurity has also made humanitarian access more difficult, with the number of people in need of assistance jumping to 2.9 million people, from 2.2 million in January.