World Ark Magazine - September/October 2008 - (Page 24) Despite the best efforts of a community that depends on each other, it remains difficult to overcome the stultifying effects of the drought. Villagers in Barza gather vegetation for firewood, their only source of fuel. The practice contributes to the desertification of the area. economic activity that accompanies it. In the Nigerian section of the lake, entire villages and major roads are buried under sand dunes as the desert extends southward. Many people are becoming “environmental refugees,” following arable land as it moves southward. Fishermen chase the lake’s retreating shoreline. Tensions flare between villages and nomadic tribes, who battle over scarce grazing land and water. Villages in the southern half of the basin, their populations booming, are unable to support the influx. Civil strife erupts where resources are scarcest. Indeed, many local leaders have attributed conflicts throughout these areas to the worsening environmental situation. In nearby Darfur, Sudan, this situation has reached crisis proportions; at least 200,000 have died since fighting broke out there in 2003. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called it “no accident” that the violence in Darfur erupted during the drought in the Sahel, where precipitation has declined 40 percent since the 1980s, and he attributed strife in Burkina Faso, Somalia and the Ivory Coast to “a similarly volatile mix of food and water insecurity.” While large-scale confl ict has not www.heifer.org 24 September/October 2008 | WORLD ARK http://www.heifer.org
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