{"id":16111,"date":"2026-05-16T04:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T04:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/children-were-hunted-by-armed-men-malians-seek-safety-in-mauritania-global-development\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T04:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T04:10:07","slug":"children-were-hunted-by-armed-men-malians-seek-safety-in-mauritania-global-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/children-were-hunted-by-armed-men-malians-seek-safety-in-mauritania-global-development\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Children were hunted by armed men\u2019: Malians seek safety in Mauritania | Global development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Leaving the village had become dangerous. Children sent on chores around Timbuktu, to collect firewood or lead animals to pasture, \u201cwere being hunted down by armed men\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cWhen they attack a child who goes to look for wood \u2026 we women were afraid the men will come [into town] to attack us,\u201d says a woman from M\u2019bera refugee camp, who spoke anonymously for fear of reprisals.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"72020561-1ecb-49c1-a082-87facaba1f52\" data-spacefinder-role=\"supporting\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.ImageBlockElement\" class=\"dcr-a2pvoh\"><figcaption data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" class=\"dcr-9ktzqp\"><span class=\"dcr-1inf02i\"><svg width=\"18\" height=\"13\" viewbox=\"0 0 18 13\"><path d=\"M18 3.5v8l-1.5 1.5h-15l-1.5-1.5v-8l1.5-1.5h3.5l2-2h4l2 2h3.5l1.5 1.5zm-9 7.5c1.9 0 3.5-1.6 3.5-3.5s-1.6-3.5-3.5-3.5-3.5 1.6-3.5 3.5 1.6 3.5 3.5 3.5z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><span class=\"dcr-1qvd3m6\">A woman who fled violence in the Timbuktu region in the M\u2019bera camp<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Three months ago, she joined a wave of people leaving Mali after a rise in violence in the country\u2019s long-running war against jihadist groups&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/jul\/08\/mali-refugee-camps-mauritania-wagner-conflict-drives-thousands-across-border\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaving the village had become dangerous. Children sent on chores around Timbuktu, to collect&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1147,1212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mauritania","category-1212"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}