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With climate change, conflict and COVID, stresses grow for Malian villagers

Mali conflict 2017

London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation Nearly four decades ago, farmers in the small central Malian village of Dlonguebougou grew their millet crops with little more than hoes, and local mud-hut shops sold just the basics: salt, sugar, tea, cola nuts, kerosene and cigarettes. The vast empty reaches of the Sahel, stretching north into the Sahara Desert, […]