Angelina Jolie named UN envoy to Burkina Faso

By Associated Press

Jun 23, 2021 12:42 am

GOUDOUBO: Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie has visited war-weakened Burkina Faso to show solidarity with people who continue to welcome the displaced, despite grappling with their own insecurity, and said the world isn't doing enough to help.

'The humanitarian crisis in the Sahel seems to me to be totally neglected. It is treated as being of little geopolitical importance,' Jolie told The Associated Press (AP). 'There's a bias in the way we think about which countries and which people matter.'

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