When Abdoulaye fled violence in Mali in 2012, he crossed the border to a refugee camp in then-peaceful Burkina Faso.
Since the violence in Abdoulaye's camp, which is called Goudoubo, thousands of residents have returned home to Mali, believing the situation in Burkina Faso to be worse now than the crisis in their own country, while others have moved to safer towns away from the camp.
Residents of a second camp, called Mentao, have also come under attack in recent months from both extremists and Burkina Faso's military, forcing aid agencies to abandon their activities and the majority of the inhabitants to move to safer areas.
Attacks on Mentao camp - located in one of the most volatile parts of Burkina Faso - started a year ago when a doctor, nurse, and driver were abducted in an incident that forced UNHCR and other aid agencies working there to relocate staff.
The refugee agency said it is in talks with the government to safely move residents who fled both camps back to Goudoubo, but the security situation remains fragile and refugees from Mentao doubt the military's capacity to protect them.
