{"id":4668,"date":"2022-01-17T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T21:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medecinsdumonde.ca\/?post_type=actualite&#038;p=4668"},"modified":"2026-10-02T04:31:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T09:31:43","slug":"recommandations-situation-au-sahel","status":"publish","type":"actualite","link":"https:\/\/medecinsdumonde.ca\/en\/article\/recommandations-situation-au-sahel\/","title":{"rendered":"Situation in the Sahel: Recommendations to the UN Security Council"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 10 January 2022, C\u00e9cile Yougbare, Advocacy Coordinator for M\u00e9decins du Monde France in Africa, spoke before the UN Security Council on behalf of the Sahel Citizen Coalition (an alliance of 55 regional organisations and NGOs present in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger). She presented a new approach to combating the crisis in the Sahel, where populations are the primary victims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4669,"template":"","actualite_type":[10],"actualite_sujet":[],"action_combat":[],"mdm_pays":[],"class_list":["post-4668","actualite","type-actualite","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","actualite_type-international-actions"],"acf":{"mise_en_avant":false,"chapeau":"On 10 January 2022, C\u00e9cile Yougbare, Advocacy Coordinator for M\u00e9decins du Monde France in Africa, spoke before the UN Security Council on behalf of the Sahel Citizen Coalition (an alliance of 55 regional organisations and NGOs present in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger). She presented a new approach to combating the crisis in the Sahel, where populations are the primary victims.","cta_type":"aucun","cta_lien":"","contenu":"<figure class=\"prose-figure\"><\/figure>\n<h3>Situation in the Sahel: C\u00e9cile Yougbare at the UN Council<\/h3>\n<p>On that day, C\u00e9cile Yougbare spoke on behalf of the organisation M\u00e9decins du Monde, but also as a Burkinabe citizen, a country unfortunately at the heart of an unprecedented escalation of violence.<\/p>\n<ul><li>In Burkina Faso, 53% of internally displaced persons are women. Among them, three out of four identify as survivors of violence. Our medical teams have observed a resurgence of rapes during their mobile clinic visits.<\/li><li>In 2021, over 800 civilians were killed in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger in attacks attributed to non-state armed groups. Other civilians died in abuses attributed to defence and security forces.<\/li><li>As a humanitarian health association, M\u00e9decins du Monde is particularly concerned by attacks against healthcare personnel. In 2020 alone, 25 people were killed in Burkina Faso, and 6 were kidnapped or injured.<\/li><\/ul>\n<p>The Citizen Coalition was born out of the observation that the strategy implemented since 2013 to attempt to end the violence has not succeeded in restoring stability to the Sahel region. The security response, as it has been conducted, has not sufficiently taken into account the needs of the populations.<\/p>\n<h3>Here are the Coalition\u2019s recommendations that should guide all actions in the Sahel:<\/h3>\n<ul><li>Place the protection of civilians at the heart of the response to the crisis in the Sahel<\/li><li>Support political strategies to resolve the governance crisis in the Sahel<\/li><li>Respond to humanitarian emergencies<\/li><li>Combat impunity<\/li><\/ul>\n<p>During this presentation, C\u00e9cile Yougbare called for future communications from the Security Council to reflect this reality and emphasise that the fight against terrorism must not come at the expense of civilian protection.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/medecinsdumonde\/docs\/sahel_rapport_coalition_citoyenne_final_20210414\/6\">Report on the protection of civilians in the Sahel<\/a><\/p>","temps_lecture":2,"legende_couverture":"","signature_nom":"","signature_role":"","signature_initiales":"","signature_avatar":"","communique_lien":"","communique_libelle":"","encadre_titre":"","encadre_texte":"","partenaires_titre":"","partenaires":null,"reseaux_partage":["facebook","twitter","linkedin","email","copy"],"evenement_date":null,"evenement_type":"","evenement_lieu":"","evenement_inscription":"","presse_afficher":false,"presse_surtitre":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medecinsdumonde.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/actualite\/4668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medecinsdumonde.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/actualite"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medecinsdumonde.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/actualite"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medecinsdumonde.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/actualite\/4668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4670,"href":"https:\/\/medecinsdumonde.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/actualite\/4668\/revisions\/4670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medecinsdumonde.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medecinsdumonde.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"actualite_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medecinsdumonde.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/actualite_type?post=4668"},{"taxonomy":"actualite_sujet","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medecinsdumonde.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/actualite_sujet?post=4668"},{"taxonomy":"action_combat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medecinsdumonde.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/action_combat?post=4668"},{"taxonomy":"mdm_pays","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medecinsdumonde.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mdm_pays?post=4668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}