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My biggest worry as a mother is that my children are hungry, and I don't have enough food to feed them, said Mariam 

Once again, 

Burkina 

Faso is the 

world’s most 

neglected 

crisis 

A Report by: Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) 

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Displaced 

by violent 

conflict: 

the world’s 

most 

neglected 

crises are 

in Africa – 

six 

essential 

reads 

By Kagure Gacheche 

The Conversation 

The Norwegian Refugee 

Council recently released a 

report highlighting the 10 

most neglected displacement crises in 

the world in 2023. Nine of the 10 

countries are in Africa – the only non- 

African country on the list is 

Honduras in central America. 

Neglect, according to the council, 

is characterised by a lack of media 

coverage, inadequate humanitarian 

funding and insufficient international 

political attention. The report covers 

those forced to flee their homes. 

Burkina Faso tops the 2024 report 

for a second time in a row. It’s 

followed by Cameroon, the 

Democratic Republic of Congo 

(DRC), Mali and Niger. Rounding off 

the top 10 are South Sudan, the 

Central African Republic, Chad and 

Sudan. 

At The Conversation Africa, 

we’ve been working with academic 

experts to highlight the severe 

insecurity, massive displacement and 

urgent need for international and 

regional support in these countries. 

Here are some essential reads we’ve 

published. 

Displacement crisis 

The central African region hosts 

one of the largest communities of 

internally displaced persons in 

Africa. The countries in the region 

include Cameroon, the Central 

African Republic and the DRC. 

Long-running conflicts and armed 

rebellions have led to the region’s 

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Once again, Burkina Faso is the 

world’s most neglected crisis 

Map showing the world's most neglected crises 2023 

For the second year in a row, Burkina Faso is the 

world’s most neglected displacement crisis, 

according to a new report from the Norwegian 

Refugee Council (NRC). The normalisation of neglect is 

exacerbating needs and deepening despair. 

The annual list of neglected displacement crises is 

based on three criteria: lack of humanitarian funding, 

lack of media attention, and a lack of international 

political and diplomatic initiatives compared to the 

number of people in need. 

The crisis in Cameroon is listed second, having 

featured on the list every year since 2018. The 

Democratic Republic of Congo, Mali, and Niger follow 

in this grim ranking, meaning that for the first time all 

three countries in the central Sahel are among the top 

five most neglected crises. 

“The utter neglect of displaced people has become 

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Displaced by violent conflict: the 

world’s most neglected crises are 

in Africa – six essential reads 

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instability. The main organisation 

providing assistance is the UN refugee 

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Regional instability 

Armed groups like Boko Haram have 

been operating in the Lake Chad Basin 

for more than a decade. The region, 

which includes Niger, Cameroon and 

Chad, faces severe security challenges 

and many of the 30 million people living 

here need humanitarian assistance. More 

than 11 million have been displaced by 

conflict and need aid. Modesta 

Tochukwu Alozie proposes some 

solutions for a region whose population 

is expected to double in the next two 

decades. 

Decades of neglect 

Thirty years of violence in the DRC 

have left a trail of death, destruction and 

displacement. In recent months, however, 

a rebel insurgence in the eastern region 

has placed neighbouring Rwanda and 

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I, Miss Adiatu Victoria Ramos - an Indigene of 

Lagos Island, Lagos State, Nigeria; known with a 

previous Date of Birth of 8th February 1970 wish 

to state that my correct Date of Birth 

is 8th February 1961. 

Nigeria High Commission London, Immigration & 

Nationality UK, Department of Social Security UK, 

Department for Work & Pensions, South 

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Uganda at the centre of the country’s 

conflict. According to Jason Stearns and 

Joshua Z. Walker, donors and UN 

peacekeepers are providing humanitarian 

aid, but doing little to address the 

emerging conflict dynamics. They 

explain why resolving the DRC crisis 

requires less hypocrisy from foreign 

donors, and an approach that prioritises 

the lives of civilians. 

Military takeover 

Niger is one of the poorest countries 

in the world and depends on foreign 

assistance. It’s also located in one of the 

most unstable parts of the world – the 

Sahel region, which is characterised by 

terrorism, banditry and trafficking. 

However, following a military coup in 

July 2023, the landlocked country of 25 

million people lost significant aid 

contributions. This has since resulted in 

a deterioration in security, economic 

development and people’s wellbeing. 

Olayinka Ajala unpacks the long-ranging 

implications of the military takeover in 

Niger. 

Escalating conflict 

Sudan was on a bumpy transition to 

democracy after the 2019 uprisings 

ousted long-time dictator Omar al-Bashir. 

But this came to a halt in April 2023 with 

the outbreak of a civil war. Hostilities 

have since spread beyond the capital 

Khartoum and revived long-simmering 

violence in Darfur. Around 25 million 

people – half of Sudan’s population 

before the war – are in need of urgent 

humanitarian assistance. The war is 

creating a volatile environment beyond 

Sudan’s borders, as May Darwich 

explains. 

Precarious peace 

South Sudan gained independence in 

2011 but remains extremely poor and 

underdeveloped. The country is reliant on 

oil exports for public revenue. This oil 

has to pass through Sudan to reach export 

markets. However, Sudan’s ongoing war 

poses a serious threat to Juba’s 

development efforts and an already 

precarious peace process. John Mukum 

Mbaku puts these risks into context. 

Kagure Gacheche is the 

Commissioning Editor, East Africa, at 

The Conversation. 

This article is republished from The 

Conversation under a Creative Commons 

license. Read the original article at: 

https://theconversation.com/displacedby-violent-conflict-the-worlds-mostneglected-crises-are-in-africa-six-essenti 

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Once again, Burkina Faso is the 

world’s most neglected crisis 

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the new normal,” said Jan Egeland, 

Secretary General of NRC. “The local 

political and military elites disregard the 

suffering they cause, and the world is 

neither shocked nor compelled to act by 

stories of desperation and recordbreaking 

statistics. We need a global 

reboot of solidarity and a refocus on 

where needs are greatest.” 

This year’s list represents a continued 

race to the bottom. Scores that would 

have placed a country third on last year’s 

list leave it outside this year’s top ten. 

Across all three metrics we have seen a 

deepening of neglect, most starkly in the 

ongoing reduction of humanitarian 

funding. The lack of international 

support and attention is further 

compounded by the insufficient media 

freedom in many countries featured on 

this list. 

In 2023, the shortfall between 

humanitarian appeals and money 

actually received amounted to $32 billion 

- $10 billion higher than in 2022. That 

vast deficit meant 57 per cent of needs 

remained unmet. Whilst the funding gap 

is large, it is far from impossible to close. 

If each of the five most profitable listed 

companies worldwide contributed just 

five per cent of their 2023 profits, the 

funding gap could be matched in a 

second. 

“We urgently need investment for the 

world’s most neglected crises. These 

investments must be made both in the 

form of diplomatic initiatives to get 

warring parties to come to the 

negotiating table, as well as funding 

commensurate with needs from donor 

countries,” said Egeland. 

“Critically, we need those economies 

not contributing their fair share of global 

solidarity to step up.” 

Far from the media spotlight, the 

crisis in Burkina Faso further worsened 

since topping the list last year. Violence 

killed more people and forced civilians 

to flee more times in 2023 than in any 

year since the conflict began in the 

country in 2019. Up to two million 

people are trapped in 39 blockaded 

towns across the country, leaving 

hundreds of thousands cut off from aid. 

“We have not received any assistance 

for a long, long time. In periods like this, 

when we do not have anything else to 

cook, I go and pick leaves and boil them 

in water. This pot will feed more than 10 

people in my family. This week we have 

only eaten leaves most days,” said 

Asseta, a displaced mother now living in 

Kongoussi, north Burkina Faso. 

“It is becoming increasingly hard to 

reach people in desperate need in 

Burkina Faso. Roads are too dangerous 

to use due to frequent attacks. The 

minimal air service that exists cannot get 

anywhere close to meeting the scale of 

needs, and is also prohibitively 

expensive. It’s critical that donors and 

humanitarians continue to prioritise areas 

that are out-of-sight and ensure they do 

not become out-of-mind,” said Egeland. 

Facts and figures: 

• Each year, the Norwegian Refugee 

Council (NRC) publishes a list of the 

ten most neglected displacement 

crises in the world. The purpose is to 

focus on the plight of people whose 

suffering rarely makes international 

headlines, who receive no or 

inadequate assistance, and who never 

become the centre of attention for 

international diplomacy efforts. The 

report is available at: 

https://www.nrc.no/resources/reports/ 

t h e - w o r l d s - m o s t - n e g l e c t e d - 

displacement-crises-in-2023/ 

• The full list in order this year is: 

Burkina Faso, Cameroon, 

Democratic Republic of Congo, Mali, 

Niger, Honduras, South Sudan, 

Central African Republic, Chad and 

lastly Sudan. 

• Burkina Faso has appeared on this list 

for the previous five years. It ranked 

first in last year’s report, second in 

2021, seventh in 2020, and third in 

2019. 

• Cameroon ranked 7th in 2022, 3rd in 

2021, 2nd in 2020 and topped the list 

in 2019 and 2018. 

• DR Congo topped the list three times 

(2021, 2020 and 2017). It ranked 

second on the list in 2022, 2019, 2018 

and 2016. 

• Sudan ranked 10th on the list having 

ranked 4th in 2022 and 7th in 2021. 

• The total funding to the Burkina Faso 

humanitarian response plan was $347 

million USD in 2023, of the $876 

million USD requested – making the 

response just 39.6% per cent funded 

(OCHA). 

• Conflict caused people to move 

707,000 times (internal 

displacements) in 2023, a 61% 

increase from 2022 (438,000) 

(IDMC). There are around 2 million 

internally displaced people in the 

country. The number of Burkinabè 

refugees and asylum seekers jumped 

from 60,000 to 150,000 between 

December 2022 and December 2023 

(UNHCR). 

• Up to 2 million people, including 1.3 

million people in need, are living in 

blockaded areas, unable to access aid 

regularly (FONGIH and 2024 HNO). 

• The number of people killed in 

Burkina Faso doubled last year with 

over 8,400 deaths (ACLED). 

• The gap between the total 

humanitarian appeals by the UN and 

partners and the money received 

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IDPs from the world’s most 

neglected crises 

Three internally displaced 

women in the Wendou camp. 

They all come from Arbinda 

and have been living in the 

IDP camp since March 2021. 

For the second year in a 

row Burkina Faso is the 

world’s most neglected 

displacement crisis, according 

to a new report from the 

Norwegian Refugee Council 

(NRC). The normalisation of 

neglect is exacerbating needs 

and deepening despair. 

The annual list of neglected 

displacement crises is based 

on three criteria: lack of 

humanitarian funding, lack of 

media attention, and a lack of 

international political and 

diplomatic initiatives compared 

to the number of people in 

need. 

(Photo - Ousmane Drabo, 

NRC) 

Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) 

Seceretary-General – Jan Egeland talks to 

Aissatou, an internally displaced woman from 

Arbinda who lives in the Wendou camp just 

outside Dori. 

“It is becoming increasingly hard to reach 

people in desperate need in Burkina Faso. 

Roads are too dangerous to use due to 

frequent attacks. The minimal air service that 

exists cannot get anywhere close to meeting 

the scale of needs, and is also prohibitively 

expensive. It’s critical that donors and 

humanitarians continue to prioritise areas that 

are out-of-sight and ensure they do not 

become out-of-mind,” said Egeland. 

(Photo - Ousmane Drabo, NRC) 

Asmao Bôka is an internally 

displaced woman who arrived in 

Torodi camp 4 months ago 

(February 2024). She comes 

from the village of Gorom Gorom, 

another town in the Sahel located 

more than 100 kilometres from 

Dori. She was displaced to this 

town in the north of Burkina Faso 

after fleeing her home village of 

Kolel in 2022. 

“The last time we saw 

humanitarian aid here was 7 

months ago. I fled Gorom-Gorom 

with my children because there 

too, we hadn’t eaten and nothing 

has changed our condition until 

now.” 

“My life is now linked to the 

town of Dori. Even if the 

insecurity ends, I won’t go back 

to my home in Kolel. 


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Nafissatou is an IDP who has been living in Wendou camp since the end of 

2023. There, she is making traditional Fulani mats for her family. 


“It is becoming increasingly hard to reach people in desperate need in 

Burkina Faso. Roads are too dangerous to use due to frequent attacks. The 

minimal air service that exists cannot get anywhere close to meeting the scale of 

needs, and is also prohibitively expensive. It’s critical that donors and 

humanitarians continue to prioritise areas that are out-of-sight and ensure they 

do not become out-of-mind,” said Egeland. (Photo – Ousmane Drabo, NRC) 

Burkina Faso - Mariam (Photo - Ingebjørg Kårstad, NRC) 

“My biggest worry as a mother is that my children are hungry, and I don’t have 

enough food to feed them. Sometimes they are crying because they are so hungry, 

and it breaks my heart. They don’t grow like they used to do in our village. They are 

losing weight, and so am I. Some days I skip my meal to save a small portion for 

them for the evening. I used to be a beautiful woman, but look at me now. I’m 

hungry all the time. It’s hard”, said Mariam. 

Mariam has been in Kongoussi, northern Burkina Faso, for less than a year. 

She is cooking a small portion of corn for her five children and husband. They only 

have resources to make one meal per day, and this small pot of corn is all the 

whole family will eat all day. 

They have one tiny shelter that is really too small for them all to fit inside, but 

now that the rainy season start, they can no longer sleep outside. Now they all 

cram together in that space that also has their few personal belongings in it. They 

have made small “walls” on the ground to stop the rain from flowing in. 

“The biggest challenge as a displaced is the tiny shelter and the fact that we are 

unable to get enough food to eat,” Mariam says. 

“It’s not possible to go back. The village is under control by the armed groups, 

so we have to stay here.” 

Burkina Faso - Asseta (Photo - Ingebjørg Kårstad, NRC) 

“We have not received any assistance for a long, long time. In periods like this, 

when we do not have anything else to cook, I go and pick leaves and boil them in 

water. This pot will feed more than 10 people in my family. This week we have only 

eaten leaves most days,” said Asseta, a displaced mother now living in Kongoussi, 

northern Burkina Faso. 

Collecting leaves for consumption is not at all an uncommon way for people to 

survive at this point in time in Burkina Faso. 

The total funding to the Burkina Faso humanitarian response plan was $347 

million USD in 2023, of the $876 million USD requested – making the response just 

39.6% per cent funded (OCHA). 

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Cameroon - Harouna 

Harouna and his family have 

lived for more than 10 years in 

eastern Cameroon since they fled 

unrest in Central African Republic. 

Aid has gradually diminished, 

making them feel forgotten. (Photo - 

Patricia Pouhe, NRC) 

Cameroon - Area where 

people collecting firewood 

(Photo - Ingrid Prestetun, NRC) 

Burkina Faso - Ousmane 

“One day the militia came and told us they don’t want to see anybody left in 

this village by tomorrow this time. They forced me to come with them and I was 

badly beaten. Really badly. I was not the only one they kidnapped. There were 

three other men with me. My brothers and my neighbour. We were lucky and 

were released after a while, but our neighbour was killed. His body was found 

after a couple of days”, Ousmane told us. He fled from Yamba, a village in 

eastern Burkina Faso in March 2023 and found safety in Fada, the provincal 

capital. 

“Life at home was really good. We had our farm where we cultivated millet 

and corn and we also had animals. In addition, I bought and sold millet to earn 

extra income for the family. Here in Fada, we find it really difficult to survive. Jobs 

are scarce with all the newly displaced that have arrived here. Last rainy season 

I negotiated access to a plot of land where I could farm a bit, but it was still not 

enough to get by,” says Ousmane. 

“Our message to the world is we really need support. Without our farming 

land we are struggling. We only eat a little twice a day. When our children get 

sick, we have no extra money to buy them medicine or even to pay for the 

school lunches to keep them in school.” (Photo - Ingebjørg Kårstad, NRC) 

Cameroon - Salamatou 

Growing up as a refugee has not 

been easy for Hamayadji Salamatou, 29 

years old. In 2006, when she was just 

ten years old, Salamatou was forced to 

leave her village in the Central African 

Republic with her family following 

episodes of violence. “I don’t remember 

exactly what happened, but I do 

remember that I was very scared 

because it was during the night that we 

fled,” she says. Arriving in the East 

region of Cameroon with her family, they 

first settled in Kentzou, before moving 

to Nyabi where, thanks to a smooth 

integration, she has built a home with 

her husband and 03 children few years 

later. 

As many other CAR refugees living 

in Cameroon, Salamatou is facing 

various challenges among which access 

to a dignified shelter or education for her 

children. She says “My children can’t 

even go to school because I can’t afford 

to send them, and they don’t even have 

birth certificates. But I have hope for the 

future, God can’t forget us forever! I 

know that my life is already over, but my 

biggest dream is to see my children 

going to school so that they can have a 

better life than mine and become great 

people.” 

She has not received any assistance 

from NRC. 

(Photo Ingrid Prestetun, NRC) 

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DR Congo 

1.7 million Congolese are internally displaced in the Ituri province and the 

Plaine Savo idp camp is one of several camps outside the village of Bule. 

The majority of idp’s in the Plaine Savo camp fled their homes after attacks on 

several villages between 10 and 13 June 2019. 

In the eastern Congo, the provinces of Ituri, North Kivu, South Kivu and 

Tanganyika there are over 150 armed groups. Attacks and armed clashes have 

forced more than 3.3 million people to flee. This is more than 80% of the 

population in the area. ( Photo: Beate Simarud/NRC) 

Mali - In the village of Tombonka in central Mali, Fatoumata, draws water from a 

borehole to water her newly planted crop. Access to land is a challenge, 

particularly for displaced women. Photo: Ousmane Drabo, NRC 

DR Congo 

During the first months of 2023, recurring attacks hit villages in North Kivu 

province, forcing thousands of people to flee towards Goma, the province 

capital. Many found shelter in and around schools. Photo: Beate Simarud/NRC 

Niger - Widespread insecurity and a lack of funding have led to a dramatic increase 

in school closures in Tillaberi, Niger, barring children from learning and leaving 

them without a much-needed support network. Photo: Tom Peyre-Costa, NRC 

DR Congo - Ndamukunzi 

Ndamukunzi is an old women 

between 80 and 90 years old. The 

exact age she doesn’t know. But her 

hands are as weathered as time 

itself. 

Ndamukunzi, her son, his wife 

and their eight children fled the 

village of Rogani and arrived 

Kanyaruchinya in March last year. 

Her husband fell ill and died in 

January last year. 

Now they are located at a school 

in Kanyaruchinya, a site for internally 

displaced people. The site is located 

outside the provincial capital of 

Goma in North Kivu, eastern Congo. 

Photo: Beate Simarud/NRC 

Honduras - Margarita - Margarita had a successful business. Then, her daughter 

was raped. “The truth is, none of us go out. The children don’t go out either,” she 

says. 

Margarita’s mother Marina explains the pervasive nature of violence and 

lawlessness: “Here the law is the law of the strongest, of the one who has 

money,” she says. 

“For a poor person there is no law. We live locked up in our neighbourhoods, and 

the gangs have humiliated us. We can’t speak, we can’t go out. You can’t say 

anything at all because then they tell you you have 24 hours to leave your 

house. Don’t trust anyone. I don’t trust anyone.” Photo: Ingrid Prestetun, NRC 

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South Sudan - South Sudanese returnees are offered the opportunity to 

travel onwards in South Sudan. The easiest way of moving the returnees is by 

boat down the White Nile. (Photo - Richard Ashton, NRC) 

Chad - Mariam - NRC Secretary General - Jan Egeland meets a family from 

Geneina that was attacked by Arab militias. The father, Ahmed, 37, is now 

helping fellow refugees. The mother is called Mariam, 24, sons Abdulkadir, 6, 

Hussein, 5, and three-month-old baby Ibrahim born in Adré Settlement. 

“I was two months old pregnant when armed men came and burst through our 

door, looking for my husband to kill him,” Mariam said. Her husband was away 

but when he returned home they were still there. 

“I convinced them we were not Masalit”, Ahmed said, referring to their ethnic 

community that was under attack. “They were killing Masalit men, they just 

wanted to wipe us out, but we convinced them we were from another tribe and 

we managed to get away from there, crossing to Chad,” he said. 

Mariam was studying public health in Sudan hoping to become a nurse. 

“I’ve lost everything,” she said. “I wish I can continue my studies but we are cut 

off from everything here.” 

*Names have been changed to protect their identities. 

(Photo - Karl Schembri, NRC) 

Central African Republic - Rachel 

Rachel does the dishes after making a meal for her family in Bimon, Central 

African Republic. (Photo - Marion Guenard, NRC) 

Sudan - Awadia 

Awadia has spent a life of displacement throughout Sudan. Now she is displaced 

again in White Nile province after fleeing the violence in the capital Khartoum. 

(Photo - Ahmed Omer, NRC) 

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Community support alongside treatment 

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Bab L’ Bluz releases new album 

‘Swaken’ 

Words by Jane Cornwell 

Welcome, then, to the world of 

Swaken, the highly anticipated 

second album by French-Moroccan power 

quartet, Bab L’ Bluz. Recorded at Real 

World Studios in Wiltshire, England, written 

partly in Morocco - the birthplace of frontwoman 

Yousra Mansour - and mostly across 

a world tour that took them from Adelaide, 

Barcelona and New York to Essaouira in 

Morocco, Lomé in Togo and Dougga in 

Tunisia. Eleven tracks that spark and pulse 

with kinetic, pedal-to-the-metal energy. 

Mansour’s melismatic voice has never 

sounded so forceful, or the riffage from her 

electric awisha lute so mighty. Her 

bandmates (on everything from keyboards, 

flutes and electric guembri to drums, 

backing vocals and qraqeb castanets) now 

interact with what might be telepathy, their 

playing skilled and tight. 

This is ancient-to-future music, rooted 

as much in psychedelic blues, funk and rock 

as in the trancey, propulsive rhythms of 

northern Africa’s Maghreb: Gnawa, 

Amazigh, Hassani and Houara music. The 

popular street music known as Chaabi, in 

which the word ‘swaken’ means to visit 

another dimension, as well as the space in 

which two dimensions overlap. 

Losing yourself to find yourself is a 

central tenet of Swaken, an album whose 

warm analogue sound nods to such ‘70s 

rock icons as Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin 

and Nass El Ghiwane, Morocco’s very own 

Rolling Stones, social justice warriors who 

mixed Western rock and folk with a trance 

aesthetic influenced - as is that of Bab L’ 

Bab L Bluz - Photo Crédit Samadoss Maitoul 

Bluz - by Gnawa lilas, the all-night healing 

rituals intended for sacred spirit possession. 

“Constant touring means we have grown 

in confidence and power,” says Mansour of 

the band she co-founded in 2018 with 

French guitarist, bass guembri lute player 

and multi-instrumentalist Brice Bottin, who 

co-produced Swaken in the Wood Room at 

Real World Studios with the latter’s Katie 

May. 

“We adapted our sound for festival 

crowds, made it heavier, rockier. We added 

Bab L Bluz - Photo Credit Brice Bottin 4 March 2024 

more instruments. More courage. More 

fire.” 

Back in 2020 Bab L’ Bluz opened the 

gate - to the blues, to a new way of being - 

with their debut album Nayda! Named for 

Morocco’s revolutionary youth movement 

of artists and musicians, whose philosophies 

(community, creativity, change) the band 

strives to embody, Nayda! won plaudits 

from Le Monde, Vogue Arabia and the New 

York Times, and clinched the 2021 

Songlines Award in the Fusion category. 

Bab L’ Bluz have gone on to fold 

electric mandole and electric ribab (the 

single-stringed bowed violin vital to 

Amazigh/Berber culture) into their 

message-driven wig outs. A luthier, not far 

from their hometown of Lyon, France 

fashioned the doubleneck awisha/mandole 

guitar (three single strings on one neck/five 

double strings on the other) from which 

Mansour now fires her lightning-bolt riffs. 

“The ribab feels so mystical, and there 

are even less women playing ribab than the 

[awisha] guembri,” she says, and smiles. 

“And there are probably no women playing 

them both, electrified, at the same time.” 

“We love the rock energy,” says Bottin, 

who also wields dub sirens and plays guitar, 

banjo, percussion and West Africa’s peul 

flute. “You plug in your instrument and you 

drive people crazy. Rock came from blues. 

Both are related to trance music. You can 

listen deeply, or headbang, and be 

completely taken over.” 

While hundreds of thousands of people 

around the globe have abandoned 

themselves to the band’s intense, hypnotic 

wall of sound, success has also brought out 

the haters. Having worked hard and gone 

big, Bab L’ Bluz - which also features 

Ibrahim Terkemani, Mehdi Chaib and 

Jérôme Bartolome - have, when required, 

pushed back. 

“We have huge crowds cheering us on,” 

says Mansour, one of five daughters raised 

by a widowed single mother, a science 

teacher with a strong sense of self-worth. 

“Some of those people are fighting the same 

fight. But there are still times when we are 

confronted with outdated attitudes; for 

example, after we played the Gnawa 

Festival in Essaouira last year, a famous 

Moroccan newspaper ran an online review 

praising the empowered female performers, 

and it received an avalanche of toxic 

comments.” 

A shrug. “Which only makes me more 

determined to express everything I feel. I 

will not censor myself.” 

For the most part, Mansour writes and 

sings in Darija, her Moroccan-Arabic 

dialect, and the preferred language of the 

Nayda movement (‘nayda’ means ‘up’ in 

Darija). On Swaken she confronts such 

contentious topics as Moroccan inheritance 

laws, gender wage disparities and rising 

cases of suicide and depression while 

calling for unity, tolerance and kindness in 

an increasingly fragile world. 

Arrangements co-written with Bottin 

revel in deftly applied distortion and reverb, 

and sparkle with quarter-tones found in 

North and West African and some Middle 

Eastern scales. “This discovery opened 

another gate to musical opportunities,” says 

Bottin. 

Swaken opens with ‘Imazighen’, a 

rollicking celebration of the richness of 

ethnic diversity. The song’s refrain (‘We 

(North African natives) are all true 

Amazighs‘) is sung in Tamazight, the 

language of the Amazigh Berbers, 

Mansour’s ancestors. “In the past the 

Amazigh people were discouraged from 

speaking their language, and were derided 

by many [classical] Arabic-speakers,” she 

says. “Today this is changing. The language 

is taught in schools, and young people are 

reclaiming and celebrating their Amazigh 

roots.” 

Variously inspired by Gnawa music, the 

lamenting Aita folksong of the west-central 

Moroccan countryside and the Ahwach 

collective performance tradition of southern 

Morocco, ‘Wahia Wahia’ is a rallying cry 

for solidarity; a diorama in which drums 

crash, effects echo, voices weave and 

portals open. ‘Zaino’ reimagines the poetic 

Hassani love songs of southern 

Morocco/Mauritania via pentatonic 

melodies, a sinewy Ethiopian flavour and 

that fierce all-stops-out rock. “It’s about the 

fight for women’s freedom of expression,” 

says Mansour, “as well as a love letter to 

beauty and kindness.” 

Music from north-east Morocco and 

influences from Tunisia and Algeria feed 

‘AmmA’ [sic], a track infused with flutes, 

percussion and looping chords, and where 

Mansour’s passionate ululations underscore 

a warrior vibe that recalls the traditional 

Maori haka war dance. “Awaken, 

women/Rise, women/I am not half a 

man/That time is over,“ she declaims, railing 

against the oppression found in archaic 

systems. “Everyone, repeat after us...” 

A reversed peul flute intro, and 

‘Bangoro’ gathers pace until it morphs into 

an electro-yelping, ‘70s riffing, psychedelic 

blues-rock excursion that veers into West 

Africa; ‘IWAIWA FUNK’ is played on 

electric mandole, sung in the higher-pitched 

vocal style found in Morocco’s High Atlas 

mountains, and themed to remind us that life 

is short, resentment is futile and dance - 

whirling, hair-whipping dance - is a conduit 

to the soul. 

‘Ya Leilo’ is a fragrant mix of Gnawa 

and Hassani music, Mauritanian rock, 

loping Tuareg rhythms and the percussive 

Houara music from Taroudant in south 

western Morocco. ‘Hezalli’, Swaken‘s only 

non-original tune, is a sublime traditional 

Jewish Yemenite song written by Mutahhar 

Ali Al-Eriyani: “I used to sing this song a 

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Bab L’ Bluz releases new album ‘Swaken’ 


long time ago,” says Mansour, who plays 

electric mandole throughout. “I thought 

about the difficulties Yemen is facing, and 

the culture that the tribes from Yemen 

maybe brought to Morocco.” 

The heavyweight ‘Karma’ is a song 

about what goes around, comes around, its 

Arabo-Andalusian influences piqued by the 

numerous gigs that Bab L’ Bluz have played 

in Spain, its healing powers hinted at by 

esoteric [Moroccan Sufi] Aissawa vibes, its 

import emphasised by Mansour’s cracking, 

amped-out voice: “Katie [May] used a big 

overdrive on this,” she says. “These are big 

words that I’m singing.” 

‘Li Maana’ is a fighting song, fuelled by 

ribab/awisha, that advocates for a better, 

more tolerant society - in Morocco, the 

Maghreb, the world - while name-checking 

strong female figures including Aicha 

Kendicha, a fabled prostitute who resisted 

colonisation by killing Portuguese colonists 

and over centuries has been subsumed, a 

scary djinniya (female djinn), into 

Moroccan folklore, and Dihya al-Kahina, an 

Amazigh/Berber princess-warrior who led 

indigenous resistance to early Muslim 

conquests of the Maghreb. 

‘Mouja’ (‘Wave after wave’), the 

album’s AC/DC-style closer, uses a 

guitar/guembri riff and hard-hitting Darija 

lyrics to confront the overwhelm that so 

many of us experience daily, what with 

negative events and existential threats 

assaulting our senses, and harmful lifestyles 

- forced and/or chosen - compounding 

problems further. “We are living and 

consuming as if we’re running out of time, 

and have lost sight of who we are, of what 

matters,” says Mansour. “We need to 

appreciate the life we are living now.” 

Music helps. 

Music that makes you forget to 

remember, that takes you over, sends you 

under, into a place of clarity and connection. 

A place that shakes us up, to bring us peace. 

This is Swaken. Let’s meet each other 

there. 

GLOSSARY 

Swaken (origin: Moroccan Darija) - 

possessions, haunting, transcendence. 

Spirits inhabiting humans. 

Electric Guembri - the three-stringed 

bass-lute from Morocco 

Electric Awisha – a small guembri lute 

from Morocco 

Qraqeb - iron castanet-like musical 

instrument primarily used as the rhythmic 

aspect of Gnawa music 

Gnawa - the centuries old Moroccan 

spiritual practice 

Amazigh - Berbers or the Berber 

peoples, also called by their contemporary 

self-name Amazigh or Imazighen. A diverse 

grouping of distinct ethnic groups 

indigenous to North Africa 

Hassani -is a traditional Mauritanian 

music, which is also found in southern 

Morocco and certain neighbouring regions, 

Sport 

Exciting Guinea out to make a 

splash in Paris 

and is also the name of one of the mains 

Arab dialects spoken in Mauritania 

Houara - Arab-Berber tribal 

confederation in the Maghreb 

Lilas - the all-night healing rituals 

intended for sacred spirit possession. 

Electric mandole – steel string fretted 

instrument resembling a mandolin 

Electric ribab - single-stringed bowed 

violin vital to Amazigh/Berber culture 

Peul flute - a three-hole flute made of 

reed and beeswax, 

Darija - Moroccan-Arabic dialect 

Nayda - ‘up’ in Darija 

Tamazight - the language of the 

Amazigh Berbers 

Aita - a popular Bedouin musical style 

that originates from the countryside of 

Morocco 

Djinniya (female djinn) - an intelligent 

spirit able to appear in human and animal 

forms and to possess humans. 

Guinea will return to the Men’s Olympic Football Tournament after a 56-year absence. 

FIFA profiles their team and coach. 

By FIFA.com 

Ilaix Moriba 

After suffering shootout heartbreak 

against Mali in the match for third 

place at the CAF U-23 Africa Cup 

of Nations, Guinea ultimately secured their 

spot at the Men’s Olympic Football 

Tournament courtesy of a 1-0 win over 

Indonesia in May’s intercontinental playoff. 

They were the last of the 16 nations to 

book their spot at Paris 2024, ending a 56- 

year Olympic wait in the process. In a twist 

of fate, the West Africans will line up 

against France, just as they did at Mexico 

’68, in a rather daunting-looking Group A. 

Over half a century on from Guinea’s first 

– and only – Olympic campaign, Kaba 

Diawara’s troops head to the French capital 

intent on leaving their mark on the 2024 

edition. Spearheaded by a promising crop 

of exciting talent that includes Ilaix Moriba, 

whose first-half spot kick sealed the deal 

against the Indonesians, and Olympiacos 

pair Aguibou Camara and Algassime Bah, 

the Guineans are determined to live up to 

the expectations of those back home. 

Guinea’s Group A fixtures 

All kick-offs in local time 

Wednesday, 24 July Guinea v New 

Zealand | 17:00 | Stade de Nice 

Saturday, 27 July France v Guinea | 

21:00 | Stade de Nice 

Tuesday, 30 July USA v Guinea | 19:00 

| Stade Geoffroy-Guichard, Saint Etienne 

The coach: Kaba Diawara 

“We’ll be going there to try to get as far 

as possible. We’re rewriting the history 

books with these youngsters ,” commented 

Diawara moments after having seen his 

side clinch their Paris 2024 berth. The 

former Guinean international’s post-match 

reaction served as a clear statement of 

intent from a man set to accomplish a career 

Kaba Diawara (Photo - CCA-SA 3.0 Unported) 

dream of coaching at the Games. The 

Toulon-born tactician, who also coaches the 

senior national team, masterminded an 

impressive run to the last eight of the 

AFCON and is aiming to build on that 

success on French soil. Handed the reins of 

the Olympic team in April this year, 

Diawara is seeking to instil the winning 

mentality that served him well during his 

playing days. The former Paris Saint- 

Germain hitman, who spent the majority of 

his career in his homeland – also turning 

out for Bordeaux, Rennes and Marseille, 

among others – has high hopes that his 

attack-minded blueprint can propel his 

youngsters to glory. 

Olympic history 

Previous participations: One (Mexico 

1968) Best result: Group stage (Mexico 

1968) Led by the attacking talents of 

Maxime Camara, Guinea got their first taste 

of the Men’s Olympic Football Tournament 

at the 1968 Games in Mexico. They opened 

their campaign with a 3-1 reverse at the 

hands of a Jean-Michel Larque-inspired 

France, a country from which the West 

African nation had gained independence 

only a decade earlier. However, they 

bounced back to record a 3-2 triumph over 

Colombia that kept their hopes of 

progressing alive. Those ambitions were 

soon dashed as the Syli National were put 

to the sword by Mexico in their final group 

match, with the hosts inflicting in a 4-0 rout 

that spelt the end of the road for the firsttimers. 

The squad 

The official squad lists will be 

published in early July.


Sport 

FIFA Club World Cup 2025: 

Everything you need to know 

Find out all the information on the new club tournament with details of qualified 

teams, dates, competition format, hosts, tickets and more. 

FIFA Club World 

Cup 2025 

• New tournament will be played for the first time in 2025 

• Clubs from AFC, CAF, Concacaf, CONMEBOL, OFC and UEFA will feature 

• 32 teams will take part with the USA confirmed as hosts 

FIFA President - Gianni Infantino (Photo - Doha 

Stadium, Vinod Divakaran. CCA BY 2.0 Attribution) 

FIFA’s new prime club competition - 

the FIFA Club World Cup 2025 - 

will grace the world stage in June 

and July 2025, when 32 of the globe’s 

leading teams gather in the USA for the 

inaugural edition. 

This truly global event will bring 

together the most successful club sides 

from each of the six international 

confederations: AFC, CAF, Concacaf, 

CONMEBOL, OFC and UEFA. 

Here, FIFA brings you everything 

you need to know about the tournament, 

with details of the teams who have 

already booked their tickets to the USA, 

and an explanation of how the remaining 

sides can qualify. 

Who is hosting the FIFA Club World 

Cup 2025? 

The first edition of FIFA’s new prime 

club competition will be played in the 

USA. 

When will the FIFA Club World Cup 

2025 be played? 

The tournament will take place from 15 

June to 13 July 2025. 

How many teams will take part in the 

FIFA Club World Cup 2025, and how 

do they qualify? 

A total of 32 teams will compete in the 

tournament, with places distributed as 

follows between the international football 

confederations. 

· Africa - 4 CAF teams. Three via 

champions pathway (CAF Champions 

League) and one via ranking pathway. 

· Asia - 4 AFC teams. Three via 

champions pathway (AFC Champions 

League) and one via ranking pathway. 

· Europe - 12 UEFA teams. Four via 

champions pathway (UEFA Champions 

League) and eight via ranking pathway. 

· North and Central America, 

Caribbean - 4 Concacaf teams. All 

via champions pathway (Concacaf 

Champions Cup). 

· Oceania - 1 OFC team. Via ranking 

pathway. 

· South America - 6 CONMEBOL 

teams. Four via champions pathway 

(CONMEBOL Libertadores) and two 

via ranking pathway. 

· Host country - 1 team. 

For more details on how the ranking 

pathways are determined, please visit: 

https://www.fifa.com/fifarankings/mundial-de-clubes 

Which teams have qualified for the 

FIFA Club World Cup 2025? 

Of the 32 places available at the FIFA 

Club World Cup 2025, 29 have now been 

filled. 

· Al Ahly (EGY) – 2020/21, 2022/23 

and 2023/24 CAF Champions League 

· Wydad (MAR) – 2021/22 CAF 

Champions League 

· ES Tunis (TUN) - CAF ranking 

pathway 

· Mamelodi Sundowns (RSA) - CAF 

ranking pathway 

· Al Hilal (KSA) – 2021 AFC 


· Urawa Red Diamonds (JPN) – 2022 

AFC Champions League 

· Al Ain (UAE) - 2023/24 AFC 


· Ulsan HD FC (KOR) - AFC ranking 

pathway 

· Chelsea (ENG) – 2020/21 UEFA 


· Real Madrid (ESP) – 2021/22 and 

2023/24 UEFA Champions League 

· Manchester City (ENG) – 2022/23 

UEFA Champions League 

· Bayern Munich (GER) – UEFA 


· Paris Saint-Germain (FRA) – UEFA 


· Inter Milan (ITA) – UEFA ranking 

pathway 

· Porto (POR) - UEFA ranking 

pathway 

· Benfica (POR) – UEFA ranking 

pathway 

· Borussia Dortmund (GER) - UEFA 


· Juventus (ITA) - UEFA ranking 

pathway 

· Atletico Madrid (ESP) - UEFA 


· FC Salzburg (AUT) - UEFA ranking 

pathway 

· Monterrey (MEX) – 2021 Concacaf 

Champions Cup 

· Seattle Sounders (USA) – 2022 

Concacaf Champions Cup 

· Club Leon (MEX) – 2023 Concacaf 

Champions Cup 

· Pachuca (MEX) - 2024 Concacaf 

Champions Cup 

· Auckland City (NZL) – OFC 


· Palmeiras (BRA) – 2021 

CONMEBOL Libertadores 

· Flamengo (BRA) – 2022 


· Fluminense (BRA) – 2023 


· River Plate (ARG) - CONMEBOL 


How will the remaining teams qualify 

for the FIFA Club World Cup 2025? 

The three places still open at the 

tournament will be filled as follows: 

· 2024 CONMEBOL Libertadores 

winners 

· CONMEBOL ranking pathway (one 

team) 

· One team from the host country 

The following criteria also apply: 

· In the event of a club winning two or 

more editions of the confederation’s 

premier club competition during the 

2021-2024 period, the ranking pathway 

will be used to grant access. 

· A cap of two clubs per country will be 

applied to the access list with an 

exception in cases where more than 

two clubs from the same country win 

the confederation’s premier club 

competition over the four-year period. 

What is the FIFA Club World Cup 

2025 format? 

· A group stage composed of eight 

groups of four teams per group playing 

in a single-game round-robin format. 

· The top two teams per group progress 

to the round of 16. 

· A direct single-match knockout stage 

from the round of 16 to the final. 

· No third-place play-off. 

How can I buy FIFA Club World Cup 

2025 tickets? 

Ticket details are still to be announced. 

Read more on the FIFA Club World 

Cup 2025 

• FIFA Club World Cup 2025: Latest 

qualifying permutations 

• FIFA Club World Cup 2025: How 

teams qualify 

• FIFA Club World Cup 2025: 10 players 

who can shine in 2025 

Credits: FIFA.com 

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