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The Creeping Desert (IPS)

Jesse Roche — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:01:12 +0000

IPS Inter Press Service The Creeping Desert Feed Summary Desertification 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 desertification, and another 1.2 billion in 110 countries are threatened by this degradation of otherwise arable and habitable [...]

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The Southern Africa Water Wire (IPS)

Jesse Roche — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:37:53 +0000

IPS Inter Press Service: The Southern Africa Water Wire Feed Summary The Africa Water Wire provides in-depth coverage of a diverse range of water-related issues in Southern Africa — from the importance of water to the environment, food security and sanitation, to the politics of water. The articles supplied here are the product of local journalists [...]

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Kenyans Desperate to Survive Resort to Poaching

Jesse Roche — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:49:15 +0000

This is an ongoing post chronicling some of the stories that have been summoned into existence by the droughts now ravaging Africa.

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Africa: Droughts

Jesse Roche — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:55:29 +0000

Over the course of the last one hundred years the frequency and geographic dispersion of droughts has increased significantly on the African continent.

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The People’s Water

Jesse Roche — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:34:22 +0000

The Clean and Dirty Reality of WaterWater Stories From Around the World<Video> Water Crisis in the AzawakAzawak Video Highlights<Video> QuenchQuench Video HighlightsRelated PostsThe Clean and Dirty Reality of Water If any resource can be used as the quintessential symbol for the quality of life on this planet, it would probably have to be water. In this [...]

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