Children, refugees from Burkina Faso play soccer at the Niornigue refugee camp in the north Ivory Coast town of Ouangolodoudou on September 25, 2024. On the outskirts of Ouangolodougou, the center of Niornigué looks more like a small organized village than a refugee camp. There are no tents here, but a thousand houses made of baked clay bricks and corrugated iron roofs lined up on about ten hectares. More than 6,000 "asylum seekers" - Côte d'Ivoire does not recognize their refugee status - are housed there, the vast majority of them Peul herders who left their belongings and livestock behind. (Photo by Issouf SANOGO / AFP) (Photo by ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP via Getty Images)