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Crisis looms in drought-stricken Niger
By: aljazeeraenglish
Posted: Nov 12 08
Witnessed: 1871 times
Regions: Niger
Issues: Environment, Food & health & development, Water
Tags: 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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