“Ten million children in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger are in dire need of humanitarian assistance – twice as many as in 2020 – largely due to spiralling conflict, while nearly 4 million children are at risk in neighbouring countries as hostilities between armed groups and national security forces spill across borders, according to a UNICEF child alert …”

https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/10-million-children-extreme-jeopardy-central-sahel-insecurity-seeps-neighbouring