Angelina Jolie is back to work following her trip to the Big Apple. The actor, 46, visited refugees in the West African country of Burkina Faso on June 20 to mark World Refugee Day.
As Special Envoy to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Angelina joined refugees at a camp in the region of Sahel, speaking to those who have been displaced by Islamic insurgency. “There is nowhere I would rather be today than here, with refugees, the people I admire most in the world,” the humanitarian said while donned in a headscarf.
More than one million people have been displaced and Burkina Faso currently accommodates more than 22,000 refugees, per AP. In her speech, the filmmaker said it was time for powerful countries to “wake up” and
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