Increasing violence and displacement deepen crisis

In a friend's house in BoboDioulasso, Burkina Faso's second city, Maimuona* remembers the night her son was born.

- Guardian reporter BOBODIOULASSO and OUAGADOUGOU

"There were gunshots and everyone was running," she said. Jihadists attacked her village, sending everyone scattering into the bush and causing Maimouna to go into labour early.

In the two years since, the family have not been able to return home, displaced by an insurgency that has been simmering since 2014, killing thousands and pushing more than 2 million - almost 10% of the population - from their homes. The situation has been described as the world's most neglected crisis.

The attackers, believed to be from one of the most active terror groups in the country, Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (the Group for the Support for Islam and Muslims), burned houses and shops in Maimuona's village in Nord region, and killed their goats and cows.