That is the number of Malian refugees in Burkina Faso. It is also the number of people that are at serious risk of starvation because the international community can't come up with the requisite funding for emergency food aid.
The UN Refugee Agency estimates that there are about 60,000 Malian refugees spread out across multiple sites – formal and informal – in northern Burkina Faso. A special guest post from Refugees International.
