Please complete this form and an email will be sent to you with log-in instructions as soon as we can process your request. Students who have extended their education beyond 5 years, graduating students who are continuing into Graduate School, and alumni who wish to access ClemsonJobLink, may need to reactivate or reset their account. Students or Alumni, Need to have your account reactivated or reset? Overall, more than 20,000 people in the border area between Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger face ‘catastrophe-level’ food insecurity by June 2023, according to humanitarian assessments.Students, the Clemson JobLink system is accessed through the University’s authentication system. If you cannot remember your student ID or password, please call the CCIT help desk for assistance. UNICEF explained that the central Sahel suffers from severe food and water scarcity, and that armed groups make survival for civilians even harder by blockading towns and villages and contaminating water points.įifty-eight water points were attacked in Burkina Faso alone in 2022, close to a threefold increase from the previous year. Hostilities have already spilled over from the central Sahel into the northern border regions of Benin, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana and Togo where, UNICEF notes, “children have extremely limited access to essential services and protection”.Īt least 172 violent incidents, including attacks by armed groups, were reported in the northern border areas of the four countries in 2022. That’s teachers who fled the schools, children who are too scared to go to the schools, families who are displaced - that’s buildings that have been attacked and caught up in the violence”, UNICEF’s Mr. “More than 8,300 schools in those three countries – Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger – are now closed due to violence and insecurity”, said Mr.
According to the UNICEF report, more than a fifth of schools in Burkina Faso have closed as a result of attacks. In addition, armed groups in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have been directly targeting schools, in an “ accelerating attack on education”. Children are also being recruited by armed groups and forced to fight or support militants in backup role, UNICEF said.
In Burkina Faso, for instance, the number of children killed during the first nine months of 2022 tripled compared to the same period in 2021. “The conflict may not have clear boundaries, there may not be headline-grabbing battles, but slowly and surely things have been getting worse for children, and millions of them are now caught up in the centre of this crisis,” said UNICEF spokesperson John James.Ĭhildren living on the frontlines of hostilities between armed groups and national security forces are increasingly in the line of fire, too.
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