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| The Drying Of Lake Chad And The Rise Of Insurgency by rusher14: 5:31am On Apr 04, 2018 |
The Sahel stretches from the Mauritania and Mali in West coast to Eritrea/ Sudan in the East of Africa. The Lake Chad, smack bang in the in the middle, is host to 40 million people; about the population of Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg and for good measure - Sweden, all put together. It is no news that the Lake Chad is drying up. The stats are stark - The Lake chad has lost 90% of its water in the last 40 years. Indeed, there has been a rapid decline of what was formerly the world’s 6th largest lake. Forced migration and insurgency have been birthed as a result of not-well-thought-out water projects, bad farming and water conservation methods and Africa's bane... corruption. The Hadejia-Nguru wetland was once a large green smudge on the edge of the Sahara in northeast Nigeria. More than 1.5 million people lived by fishing its waters, grazing their cattle on its wet pastures, and irrigating their crops from its complex network of natural channels and lakes. Then, in the 1990s, the Nigerian government completed two dams that together captured 80 percent of the water that flowed into the wetland. The aim was to provide water for Kano, the biggest city in northern Nigeria. But the two dams dried up four-fifths of the wetland, destroying its natural bounty and the way of life that went with it. Today, many of the people who lost their livelihoods have either headed for Kano, joined the Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram that is terrorizing northeast Nigeria – or paid human-smugglers to take them to Europe. The Manantali Dam is estimated to have caused the loss of 90 percent of fisheries and up to 618,000 acres previously covered by water. https://e360.yale.edu/features/how-africas-big-water-projects-helped-trigger-the-migrant-crisis There are suggestions that when Ghadaffi held sway in Libaya he had plans to write-off the cost an inter-basin water scheme "He had told the four leaders of Chad, Cameroon, Niger and Nigeria that if the project of water transfer proved environmentally feasible, then he would underwrite the financing of this project, essentially 2400 km. of canals, bridges and dams costing over US $14.5 billion. There was, included in the plan, the intention to develop a series of irrigated areas for crops, or livestock over an area of 50,000 to 70,000 sq. km. in the Sahel zone in Chad, north-east Nigeria, northern Cameroon and Niger. Gaddafi wanted this water transfer scheme to link up with the Great Man Made River, one of the most ambitious engineering schemes that have ever been undertaken." when the North Atlantic Treat Organisation (NATO) forces intervened in Libya, they bombed the factory at Breda that was making the pipes for this water transfer scheme in Libya. https://www.pambazuka.org/human-security/chad-drying-lake-seeing-global-warming-close Fulani Herdsmen: Various crises plague Nigeria today; one on the lips of every Nigerian is the insidious herdsmen attacks which are witnessed daily. Could force migration, battle-hardened life, be the very spur to a real and terrifying phenomenon we witness? Is this the fallout of a humanitarian crisis that has taken decades to come to a head? "The Fulani herdsmen are nomadic and habitually migratory. They annually move from north to south with their cattle in search of grazing fields. The movement is seasonal. Now with climate change, the movement pattern has been markedly altered. Due to expansive desertification, drought and unchecked deforestation in northern Nigeria, the herdsmen naturally seek greener pasture further south. As the resultant migration has intensified, so too has violent clashes over grazing lands between local farmers and pastoral herdsmen, whom the former accuse of wanton destruction of their crops and forceful appropriation of their lands." https://theecologist.org/2018/feb/22/how-climate-change-provoking-clashes-between-herdsmen-and-farmers-nigeria The purpose of this little scribble is to provoke thought. To give a different perspective to the common narrative. One hopes government, media and indeed the entire citizenry would look at the various crises that plague the nation from the root cause rather than through the lens of tribal and religious sentiments.
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| Re: The Drying Of Lake Chad And The Rise Of Insurgency by limeta(f): 6:06am On Apr 04, 2018 |
strangulation 1 Like |
| Re: The Drying Of Lake Chad And The Rise Of Insurgency by GavelSlam: 7:30am On Apr 04, 2018 |
Always knew there was a relationship. 1 Like 1 Share |
| Re: The Drying Of Lake Chad And The Rise Of Insurgency by Truthcat: 7:37am On Apr 04, 2018 |
Them being nomads do not make my backyard pasture. They won't be the first to have drought, let them drill wells and set up ranches in the the north where they have land, and everything will be ok. Let everyone from the middle belt to the ocean arm themselves to the teeth, what is coming is going to have you either kill or be killed. Yes there will be firepower support above and more but every house needs to have a sniper with a serious pump to give Nigeria army a run for their money, there won't be any way for the army to bring in more weapons through the ports. Their stash up north will be the first to be taken out, I hope the mumu playing leaders and mutiny leaning soldiers up north are using their mumuness to gather information on where fighter jets are hidden. Benin and Togo will help Yoruba and will not want to jeopardize our relationship with them. This is what will probably keep people alive while the north is being taken care of. North has to be taken out first with the river Niger bridge and all connecting rail system to the south before their foot soldiers in the south are lighted. |
| Re: The Drying Of Lake Chad And The Rise Of Insurgency by grandstar(m): 12:46am On Apr 03, 2020 |
I don't like dams |
| Re: The Drying Of Lake Chad And The Rise Of Insurgency by Bambambiglo: 1:08am On Apr 03, 2020 |
Truthcat: Too many movies is affecting this one |
| Re: The Drying Of Lake Chad And The Rise Of Insurgency by Nobody: 3:24am On Apr 03, 2020 |
What about lake chad oil? Where is our money for oil exploration in lake chad? Propaganda is a bastard. Everything is revealing... We are watching. |
| Re: The Drying Of Lake Chad And The Rise Of Insurgency by Malawian(m): 3:39am On Apr 03, 2020 |
Looks like it was those series of dams they were building that dried up the lake. |
| Re: The Drying Of Lake Chad And The Rise Of Insurgency by Truthcat: 4:21pm On Apr 21, 2020 |
That movie will soon be your reality! Bambambiglo: |
| Re: The Drying Of Lake Chad And The Rise Of Insurgency by Nobody: 11:34pm On Apr 28, 2020 |
:- Malawian: |
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