Burkina Faso suspends Norwegian Refugee Council's operations

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : The government did not respond to requests for comment, but in a widely circulated internal letter, seen by The Associated Press, the humanitarian minister, Helene Marie Laurence Ilboudo Marchal, defended the decision by asserting that the NRC was trying to "discredit the government" by saying it was refusing to let aid groups register displaced people and forbidding groups to work in hard-to-reach areas.
41% : The aid group has been providing education, shelter and water to displaced people in Burkina Faso for more than two years, since violence linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State spiked there, killing thousands and displacing more than 1.4 million people.
33% : The group had warned that the government's lack of capacity to deal with the country's growing humanitarian crisis and unwillingness to let aid groups step in was putting hundreds of thousands of displaced people at greater risk.
32% : "The suspension of an aid group is very negative, first for the displaced people and refugees who are the first beneficiaries," said Armand Joseph Kabore, director of Labo Citoyennetes, a local think tank, saying it makes them more vulnerable.

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