Crisis looms in drought-stricken Niger
By: aljazeeraenglish
Posted: Nov 12 08
Witnessed: 359 times
Niger
Environment, Food & health & development, Water
Africa, drought, hunger, natural resources, Niger, rural exodus
In Niger, there are too many mouths to feed, and not enough productive land. The country already struggles with extreme poverty but now Niger is being hard hit by climate change.
Rural populations are being starved off their land and as a result there is a mass exodus into the cities.
Al Jazeera's May Ying Welsh reports. (November 8, 2008)
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