Nigeria: The Water Wars in Northeast Nigeria

May 17, 2017 | Ahmad Salkida, Sahara Reporters
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In northern parts of Borno and Yobe, the raging water scarcity has led to the creation of new "water culture." The Lake Chad region is facing multi-pronged human emergencies that are grossly under reported.
Severely short official attention span in these life threatening conditions is not only embarrassing, it questions every of their claim to humanness. We have heard sing songs made on the bond between water and life. Nothing dramatizes the living threat to life in these communities better than the rapidly receding Lake Chad waters.