About 10% of the population is displaced and 40 of the west African countrys cities are cut off from aid but agencies say they have only 17% of the funding needed to help In a friends house in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Fasos second-largest city, Maimuona remembers the night her son was born. There were gunshots and everyone was running, she says. Jihadists attacked her village, sending everyone scattering into the bush and causing Maimouna to go into labour early. Seydou was born by the side of a sandy road. His nickname is the lucky one. 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 .
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