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Thiombiano Yougbaré

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2022-01-10
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  1. “The people of the Sahel need the Security Council to heed the voices of Sahelian civil society and put them at the heart of its response to the crisis.”

    2022-01-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8944 (2022) · source

  2. “As long as it prevails, it will be impossible to restore trust between people and Governments, and that trust is crucial to resolving the crises in the Sahel. As a national of Burkina Faso, it is chilling to observe this escalation of violence, which is turning my country into an area that is mired in crises and continually grieving. And I hope that Council members also find it chilling, because they understand the facts, realities and experiences of the people in the countries of the Sahel and they can do something and can act. It is time to act. We therefore ask that future communications from the Security Council reflect that reality, and emphasize that the fight against terrorism must not be at the expense of the protection of civilians.”

    2022-01-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8944 (2022) · source

  3. “That is particularly crucial for women and girls, as we know that 60 per cent of maternal mortality in the context of a crisis is avoidable. The Minimum Initial Service Package for Reproductive Health must be funded and implemented for effective access to comprehensive health services. I would also like to remind everyone of the importance of respecting and ensuring respect for international humanitarian law and the principles of impartiality, neutrality and independence for aid workers. Those principles are not just concepts; they save lives. Finally, we must fight impunity — the fourth citizen pillar — because impunity fuels the cycle of violence and encourages recruitment by armed groups, as Council members know.”

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  4. “Secondly, the international community must ensure the implementation of a truly holistic approach that addresses the root causes of the crisis. That is the second citizen pillar, which is based on the shared observation today that the counter-terrorist response alone is doomed to failure if our priorities are not taken into account. To that end, Council members, such as France, will have to allow Sahelian societies to decide what they want. Sahelian societies must be able to decide whether they want to make the dialogue between the parties an essential part of the resolution to the current crisis. Thirdly, the humanitarian emergency must be addressed. That is the third citizen pillar. It is essential to ensure that the funding is commensurate with the needs, and that humanitarian access never be impeded.”

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  5. “It is based on what we call the “four citizen pillars”. We presented them last April in the report entitled The Sahel: What Needs to Change. The entire international community, beginning with the members of the Security Council, must seize the opportunity and act. That is why I am speaking directly to the Security Council today with the following recommendations. First of all, the Sahelian States and the international community must put civilians at the heart of their response to the crisis. That is the first citizen pillar. Political decisions and military operations must prioritize the protection of civilians. To that end, Sahelian and international defence and security forces must demonstrate greater transparency and accountability in conducting their military operations.”

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  6. “So I asked myself: how did we get here? The reason is that our priorities were out of order. The security response as it has been conducted has not sufficiently taken into account people’s needs, and it did not rely sufficiently on the expertise and experience of civil society. To ensure that those voices are heard, we have come together with 55 other diverse organizations to establish the People’s Coalition for the Sahel. Our organizations are mainly from Mali, Burkina Faso and the Niger, but there are also regional groups and international non-governmental organizations. What unites us is the realization that the entire security strategy has failed and that we must radically change our approach. And we must do so immediately. What is this new approach that we want and that we are calling on the Council to implement?”

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  7. “We saw a 16-year-old girl who was raped when her village was attacked by armed men and had suffered without adequate medical and psychological care. We have seen so many cases of depression, suicidal ideation and insomnia that our colleagues have stopped counting them, but those are typical signs of post-traumatic stress disorder. The majority of those patients are women and girls. As a humanitarian health-care association, we are particularly concerned about the attacks on health care. In 2020 alone, 25 health-care workers were killed in Burkina Faso and six were kidnapped or injured. What worries me above all is that, after the fear and disarray among the communities, I am also seeing an increase in anger directed at the national authorities and the countries with a military presence in the region, such as France.”

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  8. “As a humanitarian, I observe on a daily basis the devastating effects of a lack of access to health care; food insecurity, which will be four times higher in 2021 than in 2020; no access to schooling for 500,000 children; and, above all, the explosion of violence against women and girls. Fifty-three per cent of internally displaced persons are women. Three out of four of them say that they are survivors of violence. Our medical teams are seeing an upsurge in the number of rapes when they go out with mobile clinics. We saw one woman, who had been displaced three times due to violence, arrive at our medical teams mute, without control of her limbs, extremely malnourished and unable to stop crying.”

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  9. “More than 800 civilians were killed in Mali, Burkina Faso and the Niger in 2021 in attacks attributed to non-State armed groups. Other civilians have died in abuses attributed to defence and security forces. Violence is also fuelled by the proliferation of self- defence groups. Populations are exhausted, and the consequences are disastrous. It is estimated that, by 2022, 8 million people in Burkina Faso will be directly affected by the closure or reduction of basic social services, while 1.5 million people have already fled their homes in search of safety.”

    2022-01-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8944 (2022) · source

  10. “Ms. Thiombiano Yougbaré (spoke in French): I thank the Security Council, and the Norwegian presidency in particular, for the invitation extended to the People’s Coalition for the Sahel and the opportunity to speak about the impact of the crisis in the Sahel. I speak here today as a citizen of Burkina Faso, a country unfortunately at the heart of an unprecedented escalation of violence, and also as a member of the association Médecins du Monde. The People’s Coalition for the Sahel was born out of the realization that the strategy pursued since 2013 to try to bring about an end to the violence has not led to stability in our region. On the contrary, the Sahel sinks a little deeper into crisis, the first victims of which are its populations.”

    2022-01-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8944 (2022) · source