Famine ravages Burkina Faso
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Burkina Faso has been ravaged by drought and desertification.
In the east of the capital Ouagadougou, a once fertile land is now dry.
The land that was used to support generations of farmers, but families now can only scrape a living.
Under a burning sun, Julienne Rouamba works on the land she farmed for almost two decades.
The land is now only good for gathering pebbles, desiccated through years of drought, the erosion of the top soil.
Julienne gathers the gravel and then sift and grades it before selling it to merchants.
The few dollars she makes a week is all her family survives on.
Other families in the area are doing the same.
The gradual advancement of desertification, comes as people from the north and across the Sahel are being forced from their homes by violence linked to jihadists forces.
Food insecurity is currently a threat, affecting about two million people in the country, according to the recent report from its government and aid groups.
The Famine crisis in the country already has displaced about 850,000 people, and has many subsistence farmers unable to feed their families.
FULL NEWS: https://fojusi.com/famine-ravages-burkina-faso/
In the east of the capital Ouagadougou, a once fertile land is now dry.
The land that was used to support generations of farmers, but families now can only scrape a living.
Under a burning sun, Julienne Rouamba works on the land she farmed for almost two decades.
The land is now only good for gathering pebbles, desiccated through years of drought, the erosion of the top soil.
Julienne gathers the gravel and then sift and grades it before selling it to merchants.
The few dollars she makes a week is all her family survives on.
Other families in the area are doing the same.
The gradual advancement of desertification, comes as people from the north and across the Sahel are being forced from their homes by violence linked to jihadists forces.
Food insecurity is currently a threat, affecting about two million people in the country, according to the recent report from its government and aid groups.
The Famine crisis in the country already has displaced about 850,000 people, and has many subsistence farmers unable to feed their families.
FULL NEWS: https://fojusi.com/famine-ravages-burkina-faso/
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