Inside Burkina Faso's Descent into Chaos

Correspondent Ben Anderson goes to Burkina Faso, where one of Africa’s fastest-growing humanitarian crises spins out of control as the Sahel becomes the new epicenter of terrorism and violence.

This segment is from the show ‘VICE’ which originally aired in May 2020.

Since the broadcast, Burkina Faso has experienced two separate military coups, and over two million of its citizens have fled while roughly 40% of the country remains under the control of non-state armed groups.

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