The Creeping Desert (IPS)

 

IPS Inter Press Service The Creeping Desert Feed Summary

could force some 60 million to migrate from sub-Saharan Africa to Northern Africa and Europe by 2020. More than 250 million people worldwide directly suffer the effects of , and another 1.2 billion in 110 countries are threatened by this degradation of otherwise arable and habitable land — caused by and by unsustainable land-use practices like , and burning. IPS offers insights into a phenomenon that is undermining development in Africa and around the world, and which requires the immediate attention of the international community and local peoples alike.

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Africa: Droughts

Dec 302009
 

The in Africa from 1900 to 2009

Africa has been struggling with droughts for many years. Some countries there are facing enormous challenges. In a piece entitled, Kenyans eating wild animals as worsens, The Nairobi Chronicle, for example, reports that wild animals “face extinction by ending up on dinner tables as the worst in a generation takes its toll on a people impoverished by years of poor governance, corruption and political sterility.” Since 1950, Ethiopia, another -plagued country, has suffered more years with than without. How bad is the situation in Africa and will it get worse? This post will take a look at the -stricken African countries and regions  going back to 1900 and attempt to determine whether this data suggests any trends.

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