GOUDEBOU, Burkina Faso, March 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) counted up to three times the actual number of people fleeing conflict in Mali, data from camps in neighbouring West African nations has shown, raising questions about wastage of donor funds.
At camps in Burkina Faso, the initial registration completed in May 2012 suggested that 107,000 Malians had fled an offensive that year by Islamist rebels and their Tuareg separatist allies.
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