Mali: With Climate Change, Conflict and COVID, Stresses Grow for Malian Villagers

Jun 17, 2020 | Laurie Goering, Thomson Reuters Foundation
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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. Today, however, life is changing in Dlonguebougou, as in many other villages across the drylands of West Africa.