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How Big Water Projects Helped Trigger Africa’s Migrant Crisis - Yale E360
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Major dam and irrigation projects are drying up the wetlands that sustain life in the arid Sahel region of Africa. The result has been a wave of environmental refugees, as thousands of people flee, many on boats to Europe.

By Fred Pearce • October 17, 2017

The Hadejia-Nguru wetland was once a large green smudge on the edge of the Sahara in northeast Nigeria. More than 1.5 million people lived by fishing its waters, grazing their cattle on its wet pastures, and irrigating their crops from its complex network of natural channels and lakes. Then, in the 1990s, the Nigerian government completed two dams that together captured 80 percent of the water that flowed into the wetland.

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Nationhood and the struggle for Biafra
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Since the arrest of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), by the operatives of the Nigerian Department of State Security (DSS) in October 2015, public protests have intensified, both in Nigeria and its diaspora, calling for the independence of Biafra. The demands include an appeal to the Nigerian government to conduct a referendum on independence. Kanu has since been released from prison (in April this year), but the…

Nationhood not forgotten in struggle for Biafra
▻http://africasacountry.com/2017/07/nationhood-not-forgotten-in-struggle-for-biafra

Since the arrest of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), by the operatives of the Nigerian Department of State Security (DSS) in October 2015, public protests have intensified, both in Nigeria and its diaspora, calling for the independence of Biafra. The demands include an appeal to the Nigerian government to conduct a referendum on independence. Kanu has since been released from prison (in April this year), but the…

The forced evictions of Badia East, Lagos: ’This is not right’ | Cities | The Guardian

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Until 2013, Badia East – a small, densely populated pocket in central Lagos flanked by overhead expressways – was home to 30,000 people living in an informal housing settlement. In February of that year, 9,000 were forcibly evicted. This month the same thing happened to another 1,000 more. It is one of the largest forced evictions in the state’s history.

Their homes were demolished under the authority of the Oba Ojora, a local tribal king who has long claimed hereditary ownership of the land, previously owned by the Nigerian government. As bulldozers crashed through the neighbourhood, the residents scrambled for their belongings, most of which were crushed into rubble.

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