Niger urged to work with traffickers to curb violence
Dakar, SenegalThomson Reuters Foundation Niger is better off compromising with traffickers who smuggle goods and people across the desert than risking violence trying to stop them, according to researchers and regional authorities. The West African country is a crossroads in the Sahara where people illegally transport drugs, gold and people along ancient trade routes, often […]
SLAVERY: AS PRACTICES CHANGE IN MAURETANIA, SILENT VICTIMS PROVE HARDER TO FIND
NELLIE PEYTON, writing for Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on claims from rights groups that while slavery still exists in Mauretania, finding victims is these days more difficult…
Desert-fringed Middle East, North Africa put on new drought warning
Thomson Reuters Foundation With dusty desert sprawled across the region, Middle Eastern and north African nations must prepare better for drought as water shortages look set to worsen, the United Nations said on Friday. Over the past 40 years, droughts have become longer and more frequent in the region, where fresh water resources are among […]