Médecins Sans Frontières - Burkina Faso Crisis: Explainer

Unique Identifier Code / URN MSB116675

Date taken / Date Recorded 26/01/2022 6:47 PM

Country Burkina Faso

Commissioning section MSF-SPAIN

Photographer / videographer / producer Scott Hamilton

Copyright Scott Hamilton/MSF

Usage Rights (MSF) Advertising Campaign, External Media, MSF Fundraising, MSF Publications, Social Media

Formal Consent Copy available yes

Editor's rating ★★★ (F)

Video format h264 (Main) (avc1 / 0x31637661)

Duration 2m8s

Maximum Size 1920px × 1080px 154.25 MB

Additional Information / Shotlist TEXTS:

Burkina Faso

Youssouf Dembélé
MSF Coordinator, Burkina Faso

The humanitarian situation
in Burkina Faso

In three years, the number
of displaced people has increased
from 47,000 to 1.5 million

Many people are now living
in highly unstable conditions

But ongoing violence
complicates the work of
humanitarian organisations

MSF continues to work in
5 of Burkina Faso's 13 regions

We provide food, clean water,
maternity and child care,
malaria treatment...

But more help is needed

Subtitles .srt Timecode

1
00:00:01,120 --> 00:00:04,120
The populations here
have experienced real horror.

2
00:00:04,360 --> 00:00:06,880
They have seen people being killed,
executed right in front of them;

3
00:00:07,040 --> 00:00:11,240
their houses and crops burned,
their livestock stolen.

4
00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:15,280
People are very distressed
when they arrive (at displacement sites)

5
00:00:15,840 --> 00:00:17,800
because they have lost
all their possessions.

6
00:00:18,320 --> 00:00:19,400
They arrive with nothing

7
00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:21,720
and need urgent assistance.

8
00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:27,400
The humanitarian situation
in Burkina Faso is characterised

9
00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:34,800
by a substantial increase in violence
faced by the population,

10
00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:39,320
many of whom have been forced
to move to urban areas

11
00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:42,000
where they hope to find safety.

12
00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:53,040
People are living
in very precarious situations,

13
00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:56,440
often in camps exposed to bad weather,

14
00:00:56,720 --> 00:00:59,480
which increases waterborne diseases

15
00:00:59,720 --> 00:01:02,280
like malaria, like diarrhoea

16
00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:04,120
and respiratory infections.

17
00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:07,720
This also puts pressure
on the hospitals

18
00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:10,360
that are currently functioning

19
00:01:10,520 --> 00:01:13,920
in the country's urban centres.

20
00:01:14,680 --> 00:01:17,880
This population needs our assistance

21
00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:20,280
in terms of water, food,

22
00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:23,440
protection, health care and shelter.

23
00:01:23,920 --> 00:01:28,160
This population has the need
to be assisted.

24
00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:34,520
The level of violence

25
00:01:34,720 --> 00:01:37,600
against health structures
and the medical work

26
00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:40,080
of Médecins Sans Frontières
is not acceptable

27
00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:41,840
and must stop immediately

28
00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:45,040
so that the population can benefit

29
00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:47,200
from basic rights

30
00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:49,720
like access to health care.

Burkina Faso Crisis: Explainer – EN

Burkina Faso Crisis: Explainer – EN