YE Sahel Militants Spreading WEB
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- YE Sahel Militants Spreading WEB
- December 13, 2022
- Content Type Package
- Language English
- Transcript/Script English USAGM SHARE ((PLAYBOOK SLUG: YE - SAHEL MILITANTS SPREADING HEADLINE: Violence, Instability Increase Across the Western Sahel in 2022 TEASER: Data says fatalities have gone up by 50%, as Burkina Faso undergoes two coups PUBLISHED: 12/12/22 at 9:10am BYLINE: Henry Wilkins DATELINE: Niamey, Niger VIDEOGRAPHER: Henry Wilkins VIDEO EDITOR: Henry Wilkins PRODUCER: SCRIPT EDITORS: DLJ, MAS VIDEO SOURCE (S): VOA, Zoom, AP, AFP, Reuters PLATFORMS (mark with X): WEB __ TV _X_ RADIO_X_ TRT: 3:26 VID APPROVED BY: MAS TYPE: TVPKG EDITOR NOTES: There is a radio version to accompany this.)) ((INTRO)) Countries in Africa’s Western Sahel region – including Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger – saw a 50 percent increase in deaths due to conflict in 2022. That is according to figures from the Armed Location and Event Data Project. As violence has spread, so too has Russia’s influence and political instability, with increasing coups and numbers of displaced people. Henry Wilkins reports from Niamey, Niger. (Mandatory Courtesy: https://twitter.com/@SimNasr) ((NARRATOR)) As the western Sahel conflict entered its 11th year in 2022, violence grew worse. Data from the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project shows around 9,000 fatalities due to conflict in 2022, up from about 6,000 the year before. Analysts say many in Sahel countries are exhausted by the worsening conflict, (Mandatory Courtesy: https://twitter.com/@SimNasr) which this video on social media purports to show. And they are looking to new international partners for solutions. (end courtesy) Some in the region, like Bachirou Ouedraogo in Niger, believe Russia will remedy Burkina Faso’s insecurity. ((Bachirou Ouedraogo, Painter and Decorator (in French, ?? secs))) “We have been with France for years. If they really wanted to help us with terrorism, we think they would have done it long ago. If you partner with someone who doesn’t help you take care of business, you have to get rid of them and find someone who can. That’s why we think we have to pivot to Russia.” ((NARRATOR)) 2022 also saw France wrap up Operation Barkhane, its military intervention based in Mali, as it became increasingly unpopular and relations with Mali’s military junta began to deteriorate. France is now moving much of its military operation in the Sahel to Niger. In Mali, French troops have been replaced by mercenaries from a Russian paramilitary organization, the Wagner Group, which has been accused of human rights abuses and of fueling more violence than they prevent. In Burkina Faso, pro-Russian and anti-French protests and attacks on French-owned institutions and businesses have become commonplace ((Courtesy: Radiodiffusion Television Du Burkina)) since the second military coup in a year took place in September. Both the Malian and Burkinabe juntas cited the previous ((Twitter/@MatteoMaillard)) governments’ inability to solve the insecurity. Asked how the Sahel’s conflict could develop in 2023, one analyst told VOA… ((Mandatory Courtesy: Zoom)) ((Michael Shurkin, 14 North Strategies (in English, ?? secs))) “What remains to be seen is what happens as the population of Mali figures out that things are getting worse despite everything. Burkina Faso, I worry a great deal about. I think given the scale of the problem in Burkina Faso I think they need a lot more international help. I’d like to see the U.S. government getting more involved to help the Burkinabe government.” ((NARRATOR)) Analysts have also noted that an increasing number of terror attacks are taking place in the northern regions of Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo and Benin along the borders with Burkina Faso and Niger. Press freedom has dwindled, according to advocacy groups, with international broadcasters and journalists being banned from Burkina Faso and Mali. Meanwhile, local rights groups and press freedom advocates say human rights continue to suffer too. Daouda Diallo runs a Burkinabe rights group, the Collective Against Impunity and Stigmatization of Communities (CISC). ((Daouda Diallo, Collective Against Impunity and Stigmatization of Communities (in French, ?? secs))) “It must be said very clearly that since January to the present day… we’ve noted great sadness and bitterness as the security situation has continued to deteriorate. Running parallel to this deterioration of the security situation there are human rights violations.” ((NARRATOR)) In Burkina Faso, the new junta says it is recruiting 30,000 extra civilian volunteers to fight terrorism. But rights groups say the volunteers are carrying out many rights abuses, playing into the hands of terrorist group recruiters. In all, more than 2.5 million have been displaced by the Sahel conflict. ((Henry Wilkins, for VOA News, Niamey, Niger))
- Transcript/Script USAGM SHARE ((PLAYBOOK SLUG: YE - SAHEL MILITANTS SPREADING HEADLINE: Violence, Instability Increase Across the Western Sahel in 2022 TEASER: Data says fatalities have gone up by 50%, as Burkina Faso undergoes two coups PUBLISHED: 12/12/22 at 9:10am BYLINE: Henry Wilkins DATELINE: Niamey, Niger VIDEOGRAPHER: Henry Wilkins VIDEO EDITOR: Henry Wilkins PRODUCER: SCRIPT EDITORS: DLJ, MAS VIDEO SOURCE (S): VOA, Zoom, AP, AFP, Reuters PLATFORMS (mark with X): WEB __ TV _X_ RADIO_X_ TRT: 3:26 VID APPROVED BY: MAS TYPE: TVPKG EDITOR NOTES: There is a radio version to accompany this.)) ((INTRO)) Countries in Africa’s Western Sahel region – including Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger – saw a 50 percent increase in deaths due to conflict in 2022. That is according to figures from the Armed Location and Event Data Project. As violence has spread, so too has Russia’s influence and political instability, with increasing coups and numbers of displaced people. Henry Wilkins reports from Niamey, Niger. (Mandatory Courtesy: https://twitter.com/@SimNasr) ((NARRATOR)) As the western Sahel conflict entered its 11th year in 2022, violence grew worse. Data from the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project shows around 9,000 fatalities due to conflict in 2022, up from about 6,000 the year before. Analysts say many in Sahel countries are exhausted by the worsening conflict, (Mandatory Courtesy: https://twitter.com/@SimNasr) which this video on social media purports to show. And they are looking to new international partners for solutions. (end courtesy) Some in the region, like Bachirou Ouedraogo in Niger, believe Russia will remedy Burkina Faso’s insecurity. ((Bachirou Ouedraogo, Painter and Decorator (in French, ?? secs))) “We have been with France for years. If they really wanted to help us with terrorism, we think they would have done it long ago. If you partner with someone who doesn’t help you take care of business, you have to get rid of them and find someone who can. That’s why we think we have to pivot to Russia.” ((NARRATOR)) 2022 also saw France wrap up Operation Barkhane, its military intervention based in Mali, as it became increasingly unpopular and relations with Mali’s military junta began to deteriorate. France is now moving much of its military operation in the Sahel to Niger. In Mali, French troops have been replaced by mercenaries from a Russian paramilitary organization, the Wagner Group, which has been accused of human rights abuses and of fueling more violence than they prevent. In Burkina Faso, pro-Russian and anti-French protests and attacks on French-owned institutions and businesses have become commonplace ((Courtesy: Radiodiffusion Television Du Burkina)) since the second military coup in a year took place in September. Both the Malian and Burkinabe juntas cited the previous ((Twitter/@MatteoMaillard)) governments’ inability to solve the insecurity. Asked how the Sahel’s conflict could develop in 2023, one analyst told VOA… ((Mandatory Courtesy: Zoom)) ((Michael Shurkin, 14 North Strategies (in English, ?? secs))) “What remains to be seen is what happens as the population of Mali figures out that things are getting worse despite everything. Burkina Faso, I worry a great deal about. I think given the scale of the problem in Burkina Faso I think they need a lot more international help. I’d like to see the U.S. government getting more involved to help the Burkinabe government.” ((NARRATOR)) Analysts have also noted that an increasing number of terror attacks are taking place in the northern regions of Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo and Benin along the borders with Burkina Faso and Niger. Press freedom has dwindled, according to advocacy groups, with international broadcasters and journalists being banned from Burkina Faso and Mali. Meanwhile, local rights groups and press freedom advocates say human rights continue to suffer too. Daouda Diallo runs a Burkinabe rights group, the Collective Against Impunity and Stigmatization of Communities (CISC). ((Daouda Diallo, Collective Against Impunity and Stigmatization of Communities (in French, ?? secs))) “It must be said very clearly that since January to the present day… we’ve noted great sadness and bitterness as the security situation has continued to deteriorate. Running parallel to this deterioration of the security situation there are human rights violations.” ((NARRATOR)) In Burkina Faso, the new junta says it is recruiting 30,000 extra civilian volunteers to fight terrorism. But rights groups say the volunteers are carrying out many rights abuses, playing into the hands of terrorist group recruiters. In all, more than 2.5 million have been displaced by the Sahel conflict. ((Henry Wilkins, for VOA News, Niamey, Niger))
- NewsML Media Topics Arts, Culture, Entertainment and Media
- Network VOA
- Embargo Date December 13, 2022 14:17 EST
- Byline Henry Wilkins
- Brand / Language Service Voice of America