As reported earlier in April of this year, farmers and herdsmen suffered extreme drought in places such as Northern Kenya, parts of Ethiopia and Somalia with over 2 million people in the area bordering Chad and Kenya having been affected by severe drought and with approximately 3 million livestock dying from thirst as a result of drought.
Tribal people clashed with fishermen over freshwater in an area of water which was actually a fish pond, and which some farmers attempted to use in order to water their livestock.
Other neighbouring areas including Chad which have been impacted by the Lake Chad drought include Cameroon, Niger, Libya, Nigeria and Algeria, along with the Central African Republic and the Sudan.
The drought has caused widespread famine to millions of people across many of the neighbouring regions such as Chad and Kenya, as well as parts of Niger and areas of Ethiopia; with number of people depending on Lake Chad being approximately around 35 million.
More drought tolerant tree species (such as Acacia) have been planted across certain parts of Africa, which include areas around Lake Chad in an effort to combat the impacts of drought from the increasingly longer heatwaves directly attributed to Climate Change acceleration which, without taking the further action of planting such drought resistant and long rooted trees; would otherwise result in even more drought and widespread desertification.
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