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When the Soldiers Meant to Protect You Instead Come to Kill
Extremists and vigilantes are killing civilians in the West African nation of Burkina Faso, but so are soldiers, sowing fear and suspicion in a country that had once prided itself on its strong social fabric. We traveled to the country’s volatile far north to investigate the abuses. -
Number of Refugees Worldwide Has Doubled in a Decade, U.N. Report Says
Nearly 80 million people, or 1 percent of humanity, now qualify as refugees, asylum seekers or internally displaced.