Violence escalates in Burkina Faso, making widespread hunger worse ...Qatar

* Militant groups cut off access to food, crops in Sahel * Half a million kids under 5 in Burkina Faso acutely malnourished * UN says thousands of people are one step from famine Habibou Sore had to pause for breath as she ran barefoot from the approaching gunmen. She was pregnant with twins, due any day. Soon after arriving at a nearby town in northern Burkina Faso, her feet cut and swollen, Sore gave birth. Then her battle with hunger began. Attacks by militant groups with links to al Qaeda and Islamic State have killed thousands of people this year in Africa's Sahel region, an arid belt to the south of the Sahara Desert. The escalating bloodshed has worsened food shortages that threaten

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