More than 4000 Migrants from Burkina Faso Face Starvation, Lack of Shelter, and Water, Due to Violent Extremist Attacks Displacing them into Parts of Northern Ghana.
On December 5, 2022, reports monitored by WANEP-Ghana indicated that about 1000 individuals were migrating from nearby villages in Burkina Faso to Hapa village near Hamille in the Upper West region due to an alleged terrorist incursion in Kolinka, a village near the Burkina Faso-Ghana border, about 5 km from Hamille in Ghana. Subsequent reports have indicated the movement of Burkinabes from communities in Burkina Faso such as Bugri, Zouga and Asongo, into communities along the north-eastern side of the Upper East region in the Bawku West District.