联合国周五发出警报，称中部萨赫勒地区正面临流离失所危机，布基纳法索、马里和尼日尔近四百万人被迫逃离家园。
The United Nations on Friday raised the alarm about a displacement crisis in the central Sahel where nearly four million people have been forced to flee their homes in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger.
联合国难民署（UNHCR）表示，这一数字是六年前的两倍多，此前该地区因政变波及而陷入不稳定和暴力之中。联合国难民署补充称，其中包括81.8万名难民和庇护申请者。
The number is more than double that of six years ago, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said, before a wave of coups in a region bedevilled by instability and violence. It includes 818,000 refugees and asylum seekers, it added.
联合国难民署在一份声明中表示：“危机正因持续影响平民的袭击、气候相关冲击以及严重的人道主义资金短缺而加剧。”
"The crisis is being compounded by continued attacks affecting civilians, climate-related shocks and severe humanitarian funding shortfalls," the UNHCR said in a statement.
2020年，联合国难民署表示，该地区当时有超过170万名境内流离失所者和36.5万名难民。
In 2020, the UNHCR said the region had counted more than 1.7 million internally displaced people and 365,000 refugees.
为何萨赫勒如今成为全球恐怖主义最致命的地区？联合国难民署西非和中非地区主任阿卜杜拉乌夫·戈恩-孔德表示：“这些压力共同作用，正迫使更多家庭逃离，削弱生计，限制流离失所者重建生活的机会，从而导致该地区内部及跨地区的进一步流动。”
Why the Sahel is now the world’s deadliest region for terrorism "Together, these pressures are forcing more families to flee, eroding livelihoods and limiting opportunities for displaced people to rebuild their lives, contributing to further movements within and beyond the region," said Abdouraouf Gnon-Konde, UNHCR's regional director for west and central Africa.
他在日内瓦表示：“不幸的是，国际社会的关注正在减弱。”此前他刚结束对该地区的访问。
"Unfortunately, the international attention is receding," he added in Geneva, following a visit to the region.
戈恩-孔德补充称，不稳定局势正在加剧对庇护体系的压力，因为受影响国家在公共服务薄弱的情况下挣扎求生。在马里，大多数难民来自邻国布基纳法索。
Gnon-Konde added that the instability was ramping up pressure on the asylum system as affected countries struggle with weak public services. In Mali, most refugees come from neighbouring Burkina Faso.
根据联合国难民署的数据，马里中部班迪亚加拉地区科罗镇靠近布基纳法索边境，在经历数次最近的难民涌入后，截至7月，该地收容了约8.6万名布基纳法索难民——其中包括超过1.4万名儿童。
According to the UNHCR, Koro, in the central Bandiagara region of Mali near the border with Burkina Faso, hosted some 86,000 Burkinabe refugees – including more than 14,000 children – in July, after several recent influxes.
联合国机构表示，该地区难民人数如今几乎等于当地东道主社区的人口，这进一步加剧了已有限的土地和水资源压力，并使卫生服务不堪重负。
The UN agency said the number of refugees in the area was now nearly equal to that of the local host community, heaping pressure on already limited land and water resources and overwhelming health services.
难民人数达到历史最高水平，而全球援助资金却在下降。它警告称，危机正日益蔓延至中部萨赫勒以外地区，数十万人被迫流离失所至西非沿海国家，包括贝宁、科特迪瓦、加纳和多哥。但联合国难民署面临严重的资金缺口。
Refugee numbers reach record high as global aid funding drops It warned the crisis was increasingly spreading beyond the central Sahel, with hundreds of thousands of people displaced to coastal west Africa, including Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana and Togo. But the UNHCR faces a severe funding shortfall.
9月，该署估计其仅获得了应对萨赫勒地区工作所需资金的27%。
In September, it estimated it had only received 27 percent of the funding necessary to cover its work in the Sahel.